ELA Week 2 Vocabulary

to learn the nature and relationship of the parts of something by a close and careful examination

• analyze

• ask

• inquire

• survey

the most important concept the author wants the reader to learn from a literary or informational text

• summary

• central idea

• text

• essay

to come to a decision by investigation or reasoning

• objective

• text

• determine

• central idea

the act or process of creating, elaborating, or enhancing

• summary

• text

• central idea

• development

without personal opinion or judgment

• objective

• subjective

• superlative

• comparative

a connection or association between two or more ideas, concepts, or objects

• championship

• relationship

• summary

• essay

a brief statement or account of the central idea(s) of a text

• relationship

• central idea

• summary

• development

a detail that explains, defines, or describes a claim, topic, or central idea

• supporting idea

• detail

• central topic

• summary

the words in a written selection; a single selection

• essay

• diary

• summary

• text