STAAR Middle School ELA

To separate or break into parts and examine.

• analyze

• predict

• summarize

• message

Express a position on a problem and support it with reasons of evidence.

• predictions

• arguments

• cause-effect

• opinion

The reason why the author wrote the text. To inform, to persuade, and to entertain.

• author's writing

• author's background

• author's purpose

• author's intent

A strategy that helps readers understand or make clear what they are reading.

• predict

• clarify

• claim

• sumarize

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Get or gather together.

• compile

• conclusion

• predict

• summarize

Words or phrases surrounding a word that provides hints about the word's meaning.

• definitions

• clues

• hints

• context clue

To make known or to express.

• describe

• criticize

• analysis

• convey

Helps the reader to picture what is happening.

• describe

• analyze

• conclude

• introduce

Developing ideas with complex and thorough details

• cause

• elaboration

• conclusion

• prediction