WEEK 5 VOCABULARY

AN ESSAY THAT EXPLAINS OR INFORMS THE READER OF A TOPIC

• argumentative writing

• expository writing

• narrative writing

• creative writing

details that support the author's main point

• supporting details

• the theme

• repetition

• main idea

examine the text closely

• predict

• analyze

• inference

• implicit

The "1st Step" of the 5 step process to identify central idea

• Find supporting details

• Determine the central idea

• First/Last Sentence of the text

• Identify the topic

explaining how your evidence supports your main idea/reason

• supporting details

• excerpt

• explain

• elaboration

closely connected

• details

• relevant

• Venn diagram

• compare/contrast

the moral or lesson of a story

• main idea

• supporting details

• theme

• problem

using background knowledge and text evidence

• explaning

• explicit details

• implicit details

• inference

a small piece of writing taken from a larger text

• Story

• Fable

• Tale Tell

• Excerpt

prefix that means " not"

• dis-

• re-

• mis-

• un-