vocabulary
Resilient
What is the ability withstand or recover quickly from difficult conditions?
Central Idea
What is an overarching message or key point that is specific to a text?
Citing text Evidence
What is descriptions, quotes, facts, or any other relevant information in a text?
How to find central Idea
Central ideas may be found directly stated in a text or implied. use key supporting details in the text to infer central ideas?
How to cite textual evidence
What is using quotations and giving credit to reliable sources when needed?
Emulate
What is mocking or imitation?
Context clues
What is paying attention to detain and the way something is written?
Figurative Language
Figurative language and nuance give the author the power to expand meanings and to create vivid and meaningful notions in the minds of reader.
How to use a Hyphen
What is adding a hyphen to clarify the meaning for readers?
Connotations
What is the power of using connotative words in positions of importance as in points to be made or claims to be argued?
Incumbency
What is the state of currently occupying an office?
Hidden Meanings
What is being out of sight or not readily apparent?
Recognizing Prefixes
A prefix is a combination of letters added to the beginning of a word (called the base word), resulting in a related word with a different meaning. Prefixes help to add levels of refinement or more specifics to the idea expressed in a base word.
Identifying Figurative Language
What is understanding the use of figurative words and phrases, identifying them and then understand their meanings?
Ethos
What is the author’s attempt to persuade the audience by establishing themselves or other sources as credible.
Pervasive
What is existing or spreading throughout something?
Analyzing Complex Text
What is reading slowly, carefully and substituting hard vocabulary?
Comma Slice
What is an error in which independent clauses are joined together with only a comma between them?
Determine and Discover
What are the actions you perform when you look for meaning in informational text. However, they are not necessarily done separately?
Pathos
What is the author’s attempt to connect with the audience and persuade them through commonly held emotions or beliefs?
Indemnity
protection against loss or damage
Recognize Suffixes
A suffix, a combination of letters occurring at the end of a word, creates a derivative word—one that is related to the original word but used in a different way.
Hyphen
What is When two or more words join up to modify a noun that follows the words—and if the phrase can be read as meaning multiple things in the context of the sentence?
Determining Theme
Can be determined from the text’s topic. Readers can first determine which topics are discussed in depth within a text. Those topics can then point readers toward what the themes are.
Logos
What is an appeal to reason, or an appeal to common sense.