Edited 2023 3rd STAAR Reading Vocabulary Review

Question 1

Entertaining stories that include characters, setting, problem/solution, and plot.

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Fiction

Question 2

Putting the events of a story or text in order.

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Sequencing

Question 3

Written in lines and stanzas; often has rhyming words; conveys meaning

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Poetry

Question 4

Text that is meant to explain or inform the reader about a topic.

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Informational

Question 5

Words that sound and/or look alike but have different meanings

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Homophones

Question 6

Words that have the same meaning.

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Synonyms

Question 7

Added to the beginning of a base word to change the meaning of the word

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Prefix

Question 8

Taking what you know and what the text says to make an informed guess about the text.

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Inference

Question 9

Evidence or facts that prove the main idea.

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Supporting Details

Question 10

Short paragraph that includes just the most important events of the plot in order

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Summary

Question 11

Bold print, italics, maps timelines, captions, photographs, table of contents, glossary, index

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Text Features

Question 12

The events of the story in the order they happened.

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Plot

Question 13

A result of an event that happens

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Effect

Question 14

What comes after the problem in a story.

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Setting, Resolution

Question 15

What the paragraph, section or text is mostly about.

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Main Idea

Question 16

Added to the end of a base word to change the meaning of a word

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Suffixes

Question 17

Words that mean the opposite of each other

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Antonyms

Question 18

The message or lesson of the story. . . "I learned that. . . "

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Theme

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