Academic Vocabulary Terms (Cumulative)

compare

• find differences

• a reason that something is true

• fine likeness

• a poetry term for paragraph

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

contrast

• find likeness

• find differences

• find; point out

• conclude

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2E

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.5.6

CCSS.L.6.2B

CCSS.L.6.6

summarize

• sum up; a short retelling

• the vantage point from which a story is told

• explain the meaning of

• connections

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

quote

• a reason or set of reasons that something is true

• knowledge on which to base a belief

• break something down into its parts

• to repeat a brief excerpt from a book, speech, or other writing

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

analyze

• break something down into parts

• explain the meaning of

• find likeness

• find differences

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

identify

• deduce; conclude

• find; point out

• deduce; conclude

• relating what you read to something else you know

Tags

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.5.6

CCSS.L.6.2B

CCSS.L.6.6

describe

• find; point out

• figures of speech used to make meaning clearer

• tell the facts or details; give an account of

• explain the meaning of

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

retell

• tell or communicate in your own words

• find likeness

• deduce; conclude

• a reason or a set of reasons that something is true

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

figurative language

• figures of speech used to make meaning clearer

• explain the meaning of

• a poetry term for paragraph

• find; point out

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

stanza

• knowledge on which to base a belief

• sum up; a short retelling

• deduce; conclude

• a poetry term for paragraph; a section of a poem

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D