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Listed below are terms that may be used in Georgia's Reading and
Language Arts Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests (grades 4-8) This
is only a sample list and is not meant to be comprehensive.
Acknowledgement: Many of the words in this list are borrowed from
the work of selected Gwinnett County Public School educators.
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According to the passage |
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Articles |
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Author's purpose/viewpoint |
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Best describes |
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Central Idea |
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Citation |
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Common splice |
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Compound predicate |
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Compound sentences |
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Compound subject |
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Conjunctions |
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Context Clues |
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Draw Conclusion |
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Fragment |
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Hindered |
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Implied |
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Impose |
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Inference |
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Intended audience |
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Irrelevant |
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Main Idea |
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Mainly |
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Means the opposite of |
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Means the same as |
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Modifier |
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Mood |
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Most Likely |
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Perspective |
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Plot |
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Prefix/Suffix |
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Pronouns (object, subject, relative, possessive) |
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Purpose of |
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Put together (combine) |
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Redundant |
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Repetitive |
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Run-on sentence |
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Sentences (interrogative, imperative, exclamatory, declaritive) |
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Sequence |
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Setting |
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Takes the place of |
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Theme |
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Topic Sentence |
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Transition |
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Unifying |
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Verb (action word and predicate) |
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