Reading STAAR Review - Nonfiction

passages tell about real-life people, places, things, ideas, or events.

• nonfiction

• main idea

• fiction

• science fiction

the who or the what the author is writing about

• nonfiction

• main idea

• details

• summary

the bits and pieces of information that support the main idea

• nonfiction

• main idea

• details

• summary

shortened version of the text that focuses on the main idea of the work

• nonfiction

• main idea

• details

• summary

the author's reason for the writing

• author's purpose

• author's viewpoint

• author's claim

• summary

the author's attitude toward or opion about the subject

• author's purpose

• author's style

• author's viewpoint

• Inference

an educated guess based on teh information in apassage and your prior knowledge (schema)

• inference/infer

• summary

• details

• main idea

the way an author organizes the text

• text structure

• compare

• effect

• opinion

the text emphasizes how actions or events cause others to take place

• cause and effect

• compare and contrast

• problem solution

• chronological order/sequence

text focuses on the similarities and differences between two people, things, or ideas

• cause and effect

• compare and contrast

• problem solution

• chronological order/sequencing