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RLA Expository
RLA STAAR vocabulary Expository
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Main Ideas | central idea throughout the whole text |
| Supporting Details | details that support or back up the main idea |
| Summary | the retelling of the main ideas in a text |
| Draw Conclusions | to come to an understanding or tell from clues presented in text |
| Infer | to conclude from evidence presented in the text and what you already know about the text |
| Textual Evidence | clues presented throughout a text to answer questions |
| Facts | a detail that can be proven to be correct or incorrect |
| Opinions | one person or group's idea or feeling |
| Verify | to check for correctness |
| Support | to back up |
| Text Organizational Patterns | the various ways authors organize expository text (cause/effect, compare/contrast, sequential order, classify, or problem/solution) |
| Text Features | features added to text to make it more meaningful (graphics, diagram, table of contents, headings, subheadings, illustrations, captions, |
| Graphics | maps, charts, graphs, tables |
| Diagram | shows the parts of something |
| Table of Contents | a list of what is included in a book, story, or text |
| Headings | titles |
| Subheadings | secondary titles which tell what a certain section of text is about |
| Illustrations | pictures |
| Captions | explanations of pictures in texts |
| Make Connections | to find similarities or relationships between people, things, idea, or texts (Text-to-Text, Text-to-Self, Text-to-World) |
| Text-to-Text | connections between texts |
| Text-to-Self | connections between a text and one's self |
| Text-to-World | connections between a text and the world |
| Analyze | to study or examine the details of something or someone |
| Author's purpose | reason an author writes a text (to persuade, to inform, to entertain, or to express) |
| Monitor | to stop and check for understanding |
| Clarify | to reread or ask a question in order to better understand |
| Synthesize | to combine parts in order to have an understanding of the whole |
| Biography | a text written about another person's life experiences |
| Autobiography | a text written about one's own life experiences |
| Author's perspective | the author's viewpoint (thoughts, ideas, contributions, and opinions) |
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