STRANDS 1-2
Comprehension Skills
Comprehension Skills
A strategy used when faced with an unfamiliar word
What are dictionary or context clues?
When you write a brief response and ONLY answer the prompt.
What is the SCR?
The process an author uses to make a character become real and relatable-showing feelings, thoughts, and changes overtime.
What is character development or characterization?
The author’s reason for writing a text in part or whole.
What is the author's purpose?
The students in the science class was excited about the experiment results.
What is subject-verb agreement?
A reader recognizes “phil” in a word and uses that to determine the word relates to love.
What are Greek/Latin roots?
To put something in your own words but it maintaining its logical order and meaning.
A character’s internal quality is impatience. They make a swift decision that negatively impacts the story.
What is how a character's qualities impact the plot?
When you explain how the author’s word choice creates a mysterious, joyful, or serious feeling.
What is the author’s use of language (tone, mood, and voice)?
Argumentative, Informational, and Correspondence Essays are…
What are the three types of ECRs on STAAR?
When testing, what is a way to establish a purpose for reading?
What is read questions first?
A multipart Part B question will require you to support Part A using this…
What is to use text evidence to support a response?
Empirical, logical, and anecdotal are...
What are the types of evidence in argumentative text?
When the story is told by a character using “I” for the reader to connect to the character’s personal thoughts and feelings
What is the author's use of Point of View?
We went to the store we forgot to buy milk we had to go back.
What is a run-on sentence?
When you create mental images to deepen your understanding of a text.
What is visualization, imagery, or storyboarding?
When you restate the key points of a text while keeping its original meaning and structure.
What is to summarize?
A position taken in an argumentative text.
What is a claim?
When you explain how captions, charts, or bold words help you better understand the text.
What is the author's use of print and graphic features?
Their going to the park after school to meet there friends.
What are misspelled words (homophones)?
When details are eliminated because they are minor and not as important to the main idea.
What is evaluating details?
When you intentionally use new and precise vocabulary you’ve recently learned in class.
What is to use academic and grade-appropriate vocabulary?
Cause/Effect, Problem/Solution, and Description are…
What are organizational patterns or text structures?
"While gas prices in 2000 hovered around $1.50 per gallon, today’s prices in 2025 average nearly $4.00, revealing how inflation, supply chain issues, and environmental policies have drastically changed the cost of fuel over time."
What is the author's use of text structures to contribute to their purpose?
Dear Governor Abbott,
After reading an article about policies and how government impacts school I believe…
Thank you,
What is the correspondence ECR?
When you recognize how an idea in one text is similar or different from the ideas in another text.
What is to compare/contrast text or synthesize information?
Texting your friends versus inputting your responses on STAAR.
What is the appropriate vocabulary and tone (know your audience)?
In poetry, this is based on the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line; it creates the rhythm or flow.
What is a meter?
When an author use, “The storm grumbled low in the distance like an old man waking from a nap,” to show the storm slowly building.
What is the author's use of figurative language?
(1) Even though he trained hard for the race. (2) He wasn’t successful because he never trained on rainy days.(3) On the day of the race, it started out sunny but began to rain heavily.
What is a sentence fragment?
When a reader goes beyond or within the text for clues/info to make a prediction, draw a conclusion, or generalize.
What is to make an inference?
When you write your 'E' in RACE it does this…
What is to explain the author’s explicit/implicit meaning or interpret?
When the author hints at what’s to come to create suspense or build tension in the plot.
What is foreshadowing?
This is a technique an author uses to engage the audience, provoke thought, or guide readers toward a specific viewpoint—sometimes by asking a question with an obvious answer or using flawed reasoning to persuade.
What is the author's use of rhetorical device?
The dog barked loudly, it scared the mailman.
What is a comma splice?