academic vocabulary
anything that students can read, write, view, listen to, or explore, including books, photographs, films, articles, music, art, and more
Is it text or inference?
What is text?
This is what the passage is MOSTLY about.
Is it Point of view or main idea?
What is main idea?
When you look at how two text are alike, you are looking for the
Is it differences or similarities?
What is similarity?
to make an idea or feeling known to another person; to carry over from one to another
Is it to summarize or to convey?
What is convey?
When you are looking for similarities and differences between two things, you should
Is it compare/contrast, list and explain, or chronological order?
What is compare/contrast?
the attitude an author takes toward the subject or topic of a text, generally revealed through word choice, perspective, or point of view, and some examples of it are serious, silly, and sarcastic
Is it tone or mood?
What is tone?
A shortened version of longer text
Is it summary or poem?
What is summary?
When you have to draw a conclusion or make a guess about something based on evidence you have in the text and what you already know, you need to make
Is it an inference or an event?
What is inference?
Sequence of events in a story, play, or movie is known as
drama or plot
What is plot?
Hints in a sentence surrounding unfamiliar words that you can use to help you understand the meaning of the unfamiliar word are known as
What are phrases or context clues?
What are context clues?
the sequence of events in a story, play, movie, etc.
plot or character traits?
What is plot?
You come up with this after you look at what you already know, text details, and make a reasonable guess
Is it an inference or a conclusion?
What is an inference?
a narrator’s, writer’s, or speaker’s position with regard to the events of a narrative; one’s stance on events or information given his/her orientation (physically and/or mentally) to the events or information; the vantage point
Is it the point of view or the mood?
What is point of view?
Comparing two unlike things without using like or as is known as
simile or metaphor
What is metaphor?
The purpose of a piece of text, why it was written is known as
point of view or author's purpose
What is author's purpose?
the time and place of the action in a book, play, story, etc.
Is it plot or setting?
What is setting?
a literary work, generally composed in verse and using figurative language, typically composed using a set structure (i.e., organizational rules),made up of stanzas, lines can rhyme or not
Is it a poem or a passage?
What is poem?
the who/what the text is about and what you should have learned from the reading is known as the
central idea or the informational text
What is central idea?
the primary organizing structure in poetry and verse that forms the basic recurring measure, generally separating one main idea,
Is it stanza or paragraphs
What is stanza?
the subject or matter being discussed or written about in a text, speech, etc.
What is claim or topic?
What is topic?
the message; the subject or underlying meaning that a literary text directly or indirectly explains, develops, and/or explores; It is what the author wants you, the reader to take away from the story so you can become a better person.
Is it text or theme?
What is theme?
Animals, people, or individuals that have a role in a story are known as
passages or characters?
What are characters?
facts and/or information (quotes, statistics, graphs, etc.) presented together as a body of support for a claim or value statement
evidence or argument
What is evidence?
a brief statement of the main points of a larger work or text; the act of providing such a statement or account
Is it theme or summary/summarize?
What is summary/summarize?
value statement(s) supported by evidence whose purpose is to persuade or explain
Is it claim or argument?
What is argument?