Informational Content Vocabulary

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Summarize

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Putting all the main ideas together in order that they happened in the text.

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Central Idea

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The one BIG thing that the author really wants you to know.

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Literal

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When you know for SURE!!

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Prediction

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A really SMART GUESS!

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Author's Purpose

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Why the author wrote the text.

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Inform

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To give information or facts about a topic.

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Explain

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To make something clear or easy to understand.

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Describe

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To give details about something.

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Drawing Conclusions

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Using clues from the text to understand something that is not directly stated.

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Inferential

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Making an educated guess based on evidence in the text.