STAAR Grade 6 Reading: Informational Text

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  1. advantage
    benefit resulting from some event or action
  2. argument
    an assertion offered as evidence that something is true
  3. caption
    brief description accompanying an illustration
  4. claim
    an assertion that something is true or factual
  5. classification
    the act of distributing into categories of the same type
  6. diagram
    a drawing intended to explain how something works
  7. disadvantage
    the quality of having an inferior or less favorable position
  8. evidence
    means by which an alleged matter is established or disproved
  9. graphic
    a visual image
  10. inform
    impart knowledge of some fact, state or affairs, or event to
  11. introduction
    the first section of a communication
  12. message
    what a communication that is about something is about
  13. organization
    a methodical and orderly manner or approach
  14. paraphrase
    express the same message in different words
  15. persuade
    cause somebody to adopt a certain position or belief
  16. prefix
    an affix that is added in front of the word
  17. problem
    a question raised for consideration or solution
  18. purpose
    an anticipated outcome that guides your planned actions
  19. root
    the form of a word after all affixes are removed
  20. solution
    a method for solving a problem
  21. structure
    the complex composition of knowledge as elements
  22. suffix
    a linguistic element that is added at the end of the word
  23. summarize
    briefly present the main points of something
  24. support
    establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts
  25. thesis
    an unproved statement advanced as a premise in an argument
Created on Fri Aug 13 11:42:42 EDT 2021 (updated Tue Aug 17 13:23:31 EDT 2021)

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