SB Vocabulary 1
What a piece of writing is mostly about.
What is central idea.
The main idea or point that the author is trying to get across. It's what the author believes and wants to convince you to believe too. It is usually supported by reasons and evidence, which together form the argument.
What is author's claim.
This is where a student highlights text for important information.
What is annotating.
Read the following question, What is the important words or phrases to highlight?
What is the meaning of resonant as it is used in paragraph 3?
What is resonant and paragraph 3.
Based on the question below, what words or phrases would a student highlight for focus?
How does Churchill build his claim that the countries of Europe should share a democratic ideology?
What is claim and share democratic ideology.
A conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning.
What is inference.
Refers to their unique perspective, opinions, beliefs, and biases that shape how they present information or tell a story.
What is author's point of view.
This is where a student breaks the passage into pieces and writes a word or phrase to help remember what it is about.
What is chunking.
Read the question below, what key words or phrases would a students need to highlight?
Which phrase best states Churchill’s purpose in using personification characterize Russia in paragraph 1?
What is purpose, personification and paragraph 1.
Number of answers a student should chose based on the question.
Which two quotations from the passage directly support the central argument of the majority opinion?
What is two.
Compare and contrast, chronological, cause and effect, problem and solution
What is text structure.
the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques.Think ethos, logos, pathos, juxtaposition and parallelism.
What is rhetoric.
This is where a students uses a tool to cross out answer choses that are incorrect.
What is strike through.
When provided with an Part A/ Part B question, it is important that the answers what?
What is match.
When reading this type of document it is important to understand the background knowledge of the time period when it was written.
What is historical documents.
What is context clues.
Acronym used to help remember what to look for in informational text.
What is MUSH.
This is where a student writes beside an answer choice why it is the correct answer.
What is justification or justifying.
Read the question below, which words would a student highlight?
Which option best states a central idea of the transcript?
What is central idea.
An author's reason for or intent in writing.
What is author's purpose.
Acronym used to help remember what to look for in historical documents.
What is SOAPSTONE.
This is when a student highlights or underlines key vocabulary in the question.
What is highlighting standard based vocabulary.
Based on the question below, what words or phrases would a student highlight?
How does Churchill use references to the United States of America in paragraph 5 to advance his argument?
What is references, paragraph 5 and advance his argument.