Academic Vocabulary

To show how things are alike or similar

• contrast

• compare

• support

• describe

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

To separate into the main parts and look carefully at each part

• infer

• explain

• analyze

• cause

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

To make something clear by giving reasons

• infer

• persuade

• cause

• explain

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

To restate the important ideas or events from a text in a shorter way

• summarize

• evidence

• text

• strategy

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

Point out or show.

• Motivate

• Evaluate

• Establish

• Indicate

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2E

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.5.6

CCSS.L.6.6

I can use this tool to look up the definitions of unfamiliar words in the text.

• Dictionary

• Highlighter

• Eliminator

• Zoom

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

Sometimes writers are hard to understand, but she wrote with great _____.

• audience

• credibility

• clarity

• confidant

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

What is an excerpt?

• Part of a text

• Question

• Answer

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

Malik received an _________________ message from his family in Iraq. The protests were getting violent, and they were worried that they might not be allowed to leave.

• urgent

• skeptical

• passionate

• celebratory

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

Support from the text to back up your ideas, inferences or conclusions; proof

• strategy

• text

• summarize

• evidence

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.8

CCSS.RI.5.8

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RL.4.5