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STAAR Reading #2 ML
Question | Answer |
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Synonyms | words that have similar meanings |
Antonyms | words that have the opposite meaning |
Context clues | words or phrases that help give meaning to unknown words |
Expression | a phrase that doesn't mean what it says word for word |
Main idea | what a piece of writing is mostly about |
Important (supporting) details | the details in passage that support, or back up, the main idea (usually tell who, what, when, where, why, and how) |
Summary | briefly restates the main idea and important details |
Author | the person who wrote the story or article |
Narrator | the person who tells the story |
Audience | the intended readers for a piece of writing |
Example | an item that is the same as other things in a group |
Multiple-meaning words | words that are spelled the same but have more than one meaning |
Prefix | letters added to the beginning of a word to make a new word |
Suffix | letters added to the end of a word to make a new word |
Root (base) word | the main part of a word |