Unit 1: Vocabulary 8th Grade English

Annotating

• Adding notes or comments to a text to highlight the most important parts or share your thoughts about the text.

• Working together with others to achieve a common goal, where everyone shares ideas and responsibilities.

• Fixing grammar, spelling, and punctuation in your writing before sharing it with others.

• The most important ideas in a piece of writing that support the main message.

Audience

• The most important ideas in a piece of writing that support the main message.

• Guessing what will happen next in a story based on the details you’ve read.

• The group of people a message is meant for.

• Written or digital communication between two or more people, like letters or emails.

Collaboration

• The most important ideas in a piece of writing that support the main message.

• Making an educated guess based on clues and information you have.

• Guessing what will happen next in a story based on the details you’ve read.

• Working together with others to achieve a common goal, where everyone shares ideas and responsibilities.

Correspondence

•  Written or digital communication between two or more people, like letters or emails.

• Reducing a large text to its most important points.

• Restating someone else’s ideas in your own words without changing the original meaning.

• Guessing what will happen next in a story based on the details you’ve read.

Editing

• Guessing what will happen next in a story based on the details you’ve read.

• Making an educated guess based on clues and information you have.

• Fixing grammar, spelling, and punctuation in your writing before sharing it with others.

• Reducing a large text to its most important points.

Inference

• Fixing grammar, spelling, and punctuation in your writing before sharing it with others.

• Restating someone else’s ideas in your own words without changing the original meaning.

• Reducing a large text to its most important points.

• Making an educated guess based on clues and information you have.

Key Ideas

• Reducing a large text to its most important points.

• The most important ideas in a piece of writing that support the main message.

• Guessing what will happen next in a story based on the details you’ve read.

• Written or digital communication between two or more people, like letters or emails.

Paraphrasing

•  Making an educated guess based on clues and information you have.

• Restating someone else’s ideas in your own words without changing the original meaning.

• Guessing what will happen next in a story based on the details you’ve read.

• Reducing a large text to its most important points.

Prediction

• Written or digital communication between two or more people, like letters or emails.

• Fixing grammar, spelling, and punctuation in your writing before sharing it with others.

• Restating someone else’s ideas in your own words without changing the original meaning.

• Guessing what will happen next in a story based on the details you’ve read.

Summarizing

• The most important ideas in a piece of writing that support the main message.

•  Working together with others to achieve a common goal, where everyone shares ideas and responsibilities.

• Reducing a large text to its most important points.

• Making an educated guess based on clues and information you have.