STAAR Testing Vocabulary

To stand for or symbolize something.

• Inference

• Context

• Stage Directions

• Text Features

• Represent

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.L.4.6

These describe the actions of the characters on stage.

• Inference

• Context

• Stage Directions

• Text Features

• Represent

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

These help you to locate important information in the text.

• Inference

• Context

• Stage Directions

• Text Features

• Represent

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.5.10

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

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

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

• Author’s Viewpoint

• Text Evidence

• Convey

• Reveal

• Conclude

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.6

CCSS.RI.6.9

CCSS.RL.4.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

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

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RI.4.8

CCSS.RI.5.8

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.8

The author’s belief or opinion on an issue.

• Author’s Viewpoint

• Text Evidence

• Convey

• Reveal

• Conclude

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.6

CCSS.RI.6.9

CCSS.RL.4.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

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

• Author’s Viewpoint

• Text Evidence

• Convey

• Reveal

• Conclude

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RI.4.8

CCSS.RI.5.8

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.8

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

• Author’s Viewpoint

• Text Evidence

• Convey

• Reveal

• Conclude

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.6

CCSS.RI.6.9

CCSS.RL.4.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

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

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.6.3