ELA Skills Vocabulary

What are context clues?

• Words, phrases and sentences in a text that give you hints when defining challenging vocabulary terms or making inferences

• the main point an author is making in a nonfiction text

• Words, phrases or sentences from a text that help support, or prove, your answers to questions about a text

• How an author arranges or organizes a text

Making an Inference means...

• Using words, phrases or sentences from a text used to support or prove your claim (answer).

• Using words, phrases or sentences from a text that give you clues when defining challenging vocabulary terms or making inferences.

• Using context clues to make an "educated guess." For example, you see and smell smoke? What's happening?

• The way an author arranges or organizes a text.

Text Structure is...

(Examples: Chronological Order, Compare/Contrast, Problem/Solution)

• Words, phrases or sentences from a text used to support or prove your claim (answer).

• The way an author arranges or organizes a text.

• Words, phrases or sentences from a text that give hints or clues when making an inference or defining challenging vocabulary words.

• A statement of belief or opinion that you intend to prove.

A claim is...

• The way an author arranges or organizes a text.

• Words, phrases or sentences from a text that support or prove your claim.

• A statement of belief or opinion that you intend to prove.

• Words, phrases or sentences from a text that give you hints about the meanings of challenging vocabulary words or help you make an inference.

Text Evidence is...

• Words, phrases or sentences from a text that support or prove your claim.

• The way an author arranges or organizes information in a text.

• A statement of belief or opinion that you intend to prove.

• Making an "educated guess" based on clues in a text. Example: You see and smell smoke. What is happening?

A quote is...

• A statement of belief or opinion that you intend to prove.

• When you copy information from a text in your own words.

• The way an author arranges or organizes information in a text.

• A piece of text evidence that is copied word-for-word from a text and put inside quotation marks.

Which of the following lines of dialogue is inside quotation marks?

• "Hello there," said the farmer.

• 'Hello there,' said the farmer.

• ^Hello there,^ said the farmer.

• ;Hello there,; said the farmer.

What is persuasive writing?

• When a writer tells a story to entertain a reader.

• When a writer is simply relaying information to the reader.

• When a writer tries to convince you to do something.

• When a writer gives a reader instructions on how to do something.

When characters in a fictional story speak, it is called...

• dialogue

• quotes

• questions

• dialect

Read the following list:

1) To inform

2) To instruct

3) To persuade

4) To entertain

Each item in the list falls under the category of...

• opinion

• author's purpose

• text structure

• titles