English Academic Vocabulary

Central Idea

• The most important point an author is trying to make about a topic.

• Affect.

• How writers develop ideas through a text.

• Main message in a story.

Supporting Details

• How a story is revealed.

• Clearly stated.

• Facts, examples, reasons, or other pieces of information that shape and refine the central idea.

• A reasonable guess based on textual evidence and what you already know.

Accurate

• Correct.

• Affect.

• Clearly stated.

• Directly.

Influence

• Affect.

• Correct.

• Clearly stated.

• Directly.

Explicit

• Directly.

• Affect.

• The direct effects the factors had on one another.

• Clearly stated.

Theme

• The most important point an author is trying to make about the topic.

• When the problem in a story is solved.

• Main message in a story.

• A reasonable guess based on textual evidence and what you already know.

Connotative Meaning

• Vocabulary that expresses ideas in creative, unusual, or unexpected ways, especially using figurative language.

• Vocabulary that is specific to a certain subject area, especially science, math, and engineering.

• Free of any opinions, personal beliefs, or judgments.

• Vocabulary that has meaning beyond the dictionary definition – these words are connected to a feeling, usually positive or negative. Ex: used car/pre-owned car, nosy/curious

Figurative Meaning

• Vocabulary that is specific to a certain subject area, especially science, math, and engineering.

• Vocabulary that expresses ideas in creative, unusual, or unexpected ways, especially using figurative language.

• Vocabulary that has meaning beyond the dictionary definition – these words are connected to a feeling, usually positive or negative. Ex: used car/pre-owned car, nosy/curious

• Clearly stated.

Point of View

• Perspective (attitude about events or people around them) of the narrator or one or more characters, revealed by words, thoughts, feelings, and actions.

• Information that supports a claim.

• A statement a person believes to be true.

• A text that explains why an author’s position on an issue is valid.

Rhyme Scheme

• The arrangement of lines is irregular, and there may be no rhyme scheme.

• Pattern of rhyme in a poem.

• The characters’ spoken words in a drama.

• Instructions in a drama that describe the setting and explain what the actors should do or how they should speak or behave.