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STAAR Reading #2 ML
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |