ELAR6 STAAR Terminology

advance

• to help an idea or story move ahead

• to delay or hinder progress

• to remain stagnant

• to provide a summary of events

express

• share your feelings or thoughts clearly

• keep your thoughts to yourself

• avoid communicating emotions

• speak in a loud voice

suggest

• hint without saying

• to demand forcefully

• to ignore completely

• to explain in detail

imply

• to state directly

• to hint without saying

• to clarify explicitly

• to confuse or mislead

conclude

• To summarize the main points of a text

• To decide what is true after thinking about all the details

• To introduce a new idea or topic

• To provide examples that support an argument

emphasize

• show that something is very important

• ignore the significance of something

• present something as unimportant

• disregard the value of something

infer

• to make a guess based on evidence

• to summarize the main idea of a text

• to analyze the characters in a story

• to describe the setting of a story

convey

• show or tell something clearly

• hide or obscure information

• confuse the audience

• present in a vague manner

reveal

• to hide something from view

• to show or tell something that was hidden

• to create a mystery

• to ignore or overlook

synthesize

• combine parts of a story or informational text to understand it better

• analyze individual components of a text separately

• summarize the main idea of a text

• interpret the meaning of a text based on personal opinion