STAAR Grade 5 Reading: Informational Text, List 2

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  1. caption
    brief description accompanying an illustration
  2. heading
    a line of text indicating what the passage below it is about
  3. title
    the name of a work of art or literary composition
  4. article
    nonfictional prose forming a part of a publication
  5. quotation
    a passage or expression that is cited
  6. sequential
    in regular succession without gaps
  7. cause
    any entity that produces an effect
  8. effect
    a phenomenon that is caused by some previous phenomenon
  9. compare
    examine and note the similarities or differences of
  10. feature
    a prominent attribute or aspect of something
  11. punctuation
    a symbol that helps one read and understand written text
  12. italicize
    print or type using slanting letters
  13. root
    the form of a word after all affixes are removed
  14. capitalize
    write in large alphabetic characters
  15. prefix
    an affix that is added in front of the word
  16. suffix
    a linguistic element that is added at the end of the word
Created on Tue Jul 27 09:48:23 EDT 2021 (updated Tue Jul 27 11:26:50 EDT 2021)

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