Campus Wide Vocabulary

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Author's Purpose

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The reason the author wrote the reading

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Theme

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The message, moral, the message

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Inference/Infer

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Background knowledge plus text evidence

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Central Idea

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what an informational text is mostly about.

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Character

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a person or animal in a story

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Setting

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place, time, and environment of the story

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Text Evidence

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proof from the text

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Genre

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How we classify a text

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Solution

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How the problem in a story is solved

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Conflict

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the problem in a story