Academic Vocabulary Unit 1

annotating

• restate the meaning of something in different words

• comment on, add notes/footnotes to

explicit meaning

• an idea that is clearly stated

• an idea that must be inferred through an analysis of details

implicit meaning

• an idea that must be inferred through an analysis of details

• an idea that is clearly stated

summarize

• the reader gathers and analyzes details in order to foresee events

• to reduce large sections of text to their essential points and main idea

prediction

• to reduce large sections of text to their essential points and main idea

• the reader gathers and analyzes details in order to foresee events

paraphrase

• the study skill of outlining or summarizing ideas

• restate the meaning of something in different words

key ideas

• important ideas throughout a work that support the central message, theme, tone, etc.

• a logical guess made by connecting information

inference

• important ideas throughout a work that support the central message, theme, tone, etc.

• a logical guess made by connecting information

note taking

• the study skill of outlining or summarizing ideas

• restate the meaning of something in different words

metacognition

• thinking about thinking

• reading silently for a long period of time