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STAAR Reading #9

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Author's purpose (AP)   the reason the author wrote the story or article  
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AP to entertain   a story or article that you might read for fun (such as a narrative)  
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AP to inform   a story or article that gives information or news  
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AP to explain   giving directions how to do something or why something happened  
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AP to persuade   trying to make the reader believe a certain way, to influence  
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Graphic organizers (G.O.)   a way to keep track of information, sometimes in picture form  
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Outline   short phrases used to organize information in a story or article  
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Venn diagram   two overlapping circles used to compare two things  
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Story map   circles connected by lines that show important information from the story  
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Time line   a line showing dates in the order the events happened  
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Paired selection   two stories or articles that are meant to be read together to show comparison (similarities and differences)  
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Text structure (TS)   the organization the author uses to show how his idea are connected  
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Chronology   a TS(text structure) showing what happens in a story in order by time  
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Sequencing   a TS(text structure) showing what happens first, next, and last in a story  
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Cause and effect   a TS(text structure) showing how one thing leads to another; why something happened and the result  
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Compare and contrast   a TS (text structure) showing how two or more things are alike and different  
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