Week 5 Vocab

Author’s purpose

•  form, shape

• • The reason the author is writing a text. Can be to persuade, to inform, or to entertain.

• • Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

• • a word that links single words or groups of words.

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.6

Diction

• the choice and use of language; words and phrases chosen for their connotative, denotative, figurative, and rhetorical value

• • a word that describes the action of a subject. 

• •  the most intense, exciting, or important point of a story (part of the plot of a story)

• •  two or more words having the same pronunciation but different meanings, origins, or spelling.

Tags

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.5C

CCSS.L.7.5D

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Syntax

• • The introductory sentence of a body paragraph.

• a word created by combining two words and removing certain letters. Use an apostrophe to replace these missing letters.

• • the arrangement of sentences (e.g. word order, sentence length, use of punctuation, etc.) and the associated grammatical rules

• • A comparison of two unlike things, often introduced by like or as.

Tags

CCSS.L.7.2A

Morph-

• before, prior to

• form, or shape

• having the characteristic of

• say

Dict-

• not

• form, shape

• opposite

• say

Verb

•  a word that describes the action of a subject.

• a person, place, thing, or idea

•  a word that describes a noun.

• a word that names a specific person, place, thing, or idea.

Topic Sentence

• Explains why the evidence is important

• information taken from the text used to support an answer

• • The introductory sentence of a body paragraph.

• Reminds the reader what they read about in the paragraph

Tags

CCSS.W.7.2A

What is the author's purpose of Teenagers?

• to inform the reader of the hardships children face while growing into young adults

• to entertain the reader with a short poem detailing insecurities teenagers face

• to persuade the reader to stay a teenager forever

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.6

What type of transition word would be used in a topic sentence?

• First, additionally, or Finally

• According to the text

• For example

• As you can see

What do you notice about the diction in this excerpt, "“Charles?” she said. “We don’t have any Charles in the kindergarten.”

• The author uses the word she to refer to the mother

• the author uses the word don't to say do not

• the author uses the word kindergarten to let the reader know what grade the children are in

• the author repeats the name "Charles" to emphasize the teacher's confusion and revealing to the audience that Charles is Laurie