ELA Assessment Vocabulary

To draw a conclusion based on evidence

• affect

• describe

• Inference

• impact

to influence

• affect

• impact

• analyze

• evidence

A sentence that interrupts the flow of a text; does not belong there

• evidence

• inference

• relevant

• distracting sentence

How the author writes (word choice)

• tone

• dialogue

• author's style

• mood

Thesis or controlling idea is also known as

• Central Idea/ Claim

• Details

• Approach

• Inference

To look at or read in great detail

• conclude

• claim

• author's intent

• analyze

Give a brief statement of the main points of a reading

• central idea

• summarize

• mood

• impact

The reason why the author wrote the text

• author's intent

• central idea

• theme

• evidence

exact

• tone

• dialogue

• precise

• mood

To chronicle something means

• choose the central idea

• find the author's intent

• record a series of events

• approach something