Academic Vocabulary

Logical conclusion based on the reader's background knowledge and text clues

• Personification
• Symbolism
• Inference
• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

Reason the author writes: persuade, inform, entertain, describe.

• Alliteration
• 1st Person point of view
• Author's Purpose
• Tone

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

A group of lines in a poem that look like a paragraph

• speaker
• stanza
• rhythm
• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

What does the word "evident" mean in the following sentence?
It is evident that you worked really hard on this assignment.

• Able to see proof
• Lack of evidence
• Eventually
• Never ending

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.5.6

CCSS.L.6.2B

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.2B

Pretend you are asked a 2 part question. First, you answer a question about a passage, then you need to find evidence to support your answer by quoting the text. What should you do?

• Copy a line from the text.
• Copy a line from the text after your answer AND write the author's name to give them credit.
• Write a sentence you make up and put quotation marks around what you said.
• Write a sentence in your own words.

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Specify is a word that means the same thing as...

• Give a general answer
• Give an exact, detailed answer
• Give a special answer
• Give two different answers

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.5.6

CCSS.L.6.2B

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.2B

INTERPRET means _________.

• to speak in other languages
• to provide meaning
• to recognize

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

Choose the definition of MODIFY.

• to change or alter
• exact
• to point out

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

To examine (two or more objects, ideas, people, etc.) in order to note the similarities.

• Contrast

• Revise

• Compare

• Justify

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

To take the author's words and make them your own.

• Predict

• Compare

• Paraphrase

• Contrast

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D