LA Academic Vocab

The people reading or listening

• Comprehension

• Essay

• Audience

• Visualize

Understanding what you read

• Text Features

• Comprehension

• Prefix

• Recount

The sentence that introduces the main idea

• Evidence

• Root Word

• Support

• Topic Sentence

To give more information to back up your answer

• Support

• Audience

• Suffix

• Prefix

A piece of writing that is written to convince someone of something or to simply inform the reader

• Evidence

• Essay

• Suffix

• Audience

Give important information to support the main idea

• Main Idea

• Summarize

• Key details

• Recount

A collection of facts or information that suggests whether something is true or false

• Evidence

• Text Features

• Comprehension

• Recount

Charts, graphs, diagrams, timelines and headings that give more informtaion

• Comprehension

• Restate

• Recount

• Text Features

Using words (spoken or read) to create a picture in your mind

• Visualize

• Root Word

• Main Idea

• Support

May or may not stand alone: shows the origin of a word

• Prefix

• Suffix

• Root Word

• Graphic organizer