Reading vocabulary for RI.5.8

An explanation for why an idea might be right or true

• claim

• fact

• evidence

• reason

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.8

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.6.1

The author's view that allows the reader to know how the author thinks and feels about

• point

• point of view

• support

• reason

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RI.6.6

CCSS.RI.6.9

CCSS.RL.6.6

Facts, details, quotes or other pieces of information used to support a claim, point or idea.

• evidence

• account

• fact

• point

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.8

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RI.4.8

A statement that something is true (idea, event or observation)

• fact

• claim

• point

• support

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.8

CCSS.SL.5.3

to help explain, or provide evidence for, a main idea of a text.

• reason

• account

• support

• eyewitness

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.2

a written or spoken report of an event or topic

• expert opinion

• point of view

• eyewitness

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.4.10

CCSS.RL.5.10

CCSS.RL.6.10

A statement that is always true

• opinion

• fact

• point

• support

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Ideas that authors present to convince readers that something is true

• reason

• point

• support

• claim

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.8

CCSS.W.5.1B

Someone's firsthand description of the event

• expert

• eyewitness

• point

• support

The opinion of someone who knows a great deal about a topic

• expert opinion

• eyewitness

• support

• evidence

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.8

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.6.1