STAAR Testing Vocabulary

To stand for or symbolize something.

• Inference

• Context

• Stage Directions

• Text Features

• Represent

These describe the actions of the characters on stage.

• Inference

• Context

• Stage Directions

• Text Features

• Represent

These help you to locate important information in the text.

• Inference

• Context

• Stage Directions

• Text Features

• Represent

Using your own background knowledge plus clues from the text to come up with a logical idea about your reading.

• Inference

• Context

• Stage Directions

• Text Features

• Represent

To make an idea or feeling known or understandable to someone.

• Author’s Viewpoint

• Text Evidence

• Convey

• Reveal

• Conclude

To come up with a logical decision or idea about something you have read based on your background and the text evidence.

• Author’s Viewpoint

• Text Evidence

• Convey

• Reveal

• Conclude

The author’s belief or opinion on an issue.

• Author’s Viewpoint

• Text Evidence

• Convey

• Reveal

• Conclude

Clues or details from the text that can be used to support your thinking.

• Author’s Viewpoint

• Text Evidence

• Convey

• Reveal

• Conclude

When an author makes known something that had previously been secret or concealed.

• Author’s Viewpoint

• Text Evidence

• Convey

• Reveal

• Conclude

Making a special effort to point out something in order to draw the reader’s attention to it.

• Contrast/Differ

• Compare

• Context Clues

• Stanza

• Emphasize