CAASPP Academic Vocabulary Challenge

Inference

• Collected data, and clues collected from observations made.

• logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience.

• the writer's reason for writing.

Evidence

• The most important point the author makes

• Collected data, and clues collected from observations made.

• to speak against; to say the opposite

Imply

• The most important point the author makes

• Suggest, by the expressed CLUES given in the text.

• logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience.

Analyze

• Observe, look and break down in order to bring out the essential elements or structure.

• an educated guess

• a statement that is arguable and used as a primary point to prove an argument

Textual Evidence

• Observe, look and break down in order to bring out the essential elements or structure.

• The actual words from something you read; a quotation.

• a statement that is arguable and used as a primary point to prove an argument

Conclude

• The most important point the author makes

• Collected data, and clues collected from observations made.

• to figure something out and wrap it up.

Author's Purpose

• The most important point the author makes

• the writer's reason for writing.

• logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience.

Claim

• a statement that is arguable and used as a primary point to prove an argument

• the writer's reason for writing.

• logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience.

Thesis

• Collected data, and clues collected from observations made.

• a statement that demonstrates what a writer intends to support and/or prove. Serves a clear roadmap for the direction of a paper.

• the writer's reason for writing.

Cite

• Observe, look and break down in order to bring out the essential elements or structure.

• The actual words from something you read; a quotation.

• to quote a passage, book, author, etc.; to refer to an example