MStep Vocabulary

text written to persuade an audience with a claim (opinion), evidence, & reasoning

• argument
• narrative
• explanatory
• main idea

Word that means "in time order"

• central idea
• clocked
• chronological
• setting

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

when a character is speaking in text, quotation marks are used

• talking
• topic
• genre
• dialogue

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

to use your thinking (brain) + text (book) to better understand text

• plot
• lead
• infer / inference
• plagiarism

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

the most important idea of the text; similar to "thesis," "central idea," or "claim" in writing

• exposition
• main idea
• character
• passage

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.3

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.K.3

proof found in text that supports the topic / claim

• evidence
• resolution
• theme
• nonfiction

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.3

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.K.3

a kind or type of something, as in books

• paraphrase
• transitions
• character
• genre

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

the author's OPINION on a subject that guides the argument; AKA "claim"

• thesis
• genre
• lead
• narrator

part of the story that tells how the characters "end-up" and may also include "theme"

• exposition
• setting
• resolution
• climax

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

a STORY that did NOT happen in real life

• nonfiction
• fiction
• fake
• explanatory

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D