ACADEMIC VOCABULARY

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Inference

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an educated guess

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Main idea

Back

what the text is mainly about. (a one sentence summary)

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Theme

Back

the lesson learned or message of the passage

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Plot

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series of events that happen in the story

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Dialogue

Back

spoken between characters (always have quotation marks)

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Setting

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when and where the story takes place

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Narrator

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the person who is telling the story

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Paraphrase

Back

write in your own words

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Point of View

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Fiction - 1st person (I, Me, My) 2nd person (you, yours), 3rd (they, John, Sally), Non Fiction - Perspective/Thoughts of the author

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Summarize

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to shorten to the most important parts of the story.