Informational Voc.
This is the central claim or main idea that an author develops and supports
What is a thesis?
In TATDOAPTI, chapters 1-8, this narrator is also known as Arnold Spirit Jr.
Who is Junior?
The headings Food, Clothing, and Religion in the Plateau article help readers locate information. These organizational aids are called this.
What are text features? What are headings or subheadings?
In an ECR, this opening claim should directly answer the prompt and guide the response.
What is a thesis or a controlling idea?
This snowman from Frozen loves warm hugs
What is Olaf?
Facts, quotations, observations, and research findings used to support a claim
What is evidence?
According to Plateau article, this activity supplied the most important food source.
What is fishing?
The totem pole article explains that increased wealth and access to iron tools helped pole production grow. The relationship names the text structure in that explanation.
What is cause and effect?
After quoting a study, a writer should add this to show how the finding supports the thesis.
What is explanation or analysis?
This young lion is the son of Mufasa and the central character of The Lion King.
Who is Simba?
specific cases, such as anecdotes and studies, illustrate a broader point and real-life scenarios
What are examples?
In the totem pole article, carved crests preserve these two connected aspects of a family's heritage. Name both.
What are identity and history? Accept ancestry and family history.
A research's findings matter more than simply saying a study happened. In Cyberball, social exclusion activated regions also involved in this kind of pain.
What is physical pain?
Name the three essential jobs of a supporting paragraph.
What is answer (topic sentence), cite text evidence, explain or provide an explanation?
The Little Mermaid character is a crab who advises Ariel and serves King Triton.
Who is Sebastian?
To inform, describe, persuade, or entertain the reason an author writes
What is author's purpose?
In Why Love Literally hurts, this medicine reduced puppies' distress during separation.
What is morphine?
In chapter 4, Junior's anger at the decades-old textbook suggest that his school lacks resources. This conclusion combines a textual detail with reasoning; name the reading skill.
What is an inference?
The supplied rubric gives up to 3 points for Development and Organization and up to 2 for Conventions. This is the highest combined score.
What is 5 points?
This shapeshifting demigod carries a magical fishhook in Moana.
Who is Maui?
This term means the trustworthiness or believability of an author or source
What is credibility?
In chapter 8, this boy surprises Junior by not fighting back after Junior punches him in response to a racist insult.
Who is Roger?
The Plateau text describes fishing as essential and winter villages near waterways. Explain what this suggests about how geography shaped community life.
What is that access to fish and water influenced where communities settled and how they obtained food?
Under this rubric, if Development and Organization receives 0, Conventions must receive this score, even if sentences are correct.
What is 0?
This enchanted candelabra welcomes Belle in Beauty and the Beast.
Who is Lumiere?