STAAR Language

The main argument presented in argumentative writing

• Claim

• Relevant

• Author's Purpose

• Support

To make clearer by using more precise language

• Claim

• Clarity

• Predicate

• Mood

A sentence with one independent clause and at least one dependent clause

• Dependent Clause

• Phrase

• Complex Sentence

• Predicate

A sentence with at least two independent clauses

• Compound Sentence

• Complex Sentence

• Run-on sentence

• Thesis

A clause that cannot stand on its own as a complete sentence

• Dependent Clause

• Independent Clause

• Compound Sentence

• Simple Sentence

A clause that can stand on its own as a complete sentence

• Independent Clause

• Dependent Clause

• Run-on Sentence

• Irony

The person or thing that the sentence is about

• Predicate

• Thesis

• Subject

• Text Structure

The central idea that a piece of informative writing addresses and is organized around.

• Support

• Thesis Statement

• Body Paragraph

• Mood

Reasons why an author wrote a text and made certain choices in the text.

• Character development

• Text Structure

• Inference

• Author's Purpose

The physical and mental traits and usual behaviors of a character

• Character Foil

• Character Development

• Characteristics

• Author's Purpose