SBAC 3rd grade Vocabulary

whats is the underlying message or lesson about life in a story

• summarize

• theme

• truth

• message

What is the conversation between 2 or more people in a book or story. Always offset by quotation marks.

• talking

• a chapter

• dialogue

what is a a conclusion based on evidence gained from finding the hidden meaning

• inference

• a detective

• summarize

• evaluate

what the available facts or information in a passage or source?

• answers

• facts

• information

• evidence

What is the ¨big idea" or what the author is trying to tell the reader

• theme

• author's point of view

• hidden facts

• explain

able to believe something ; it is trustworthy

• hope

• credible

• exciting

to use evidence to support your answer

• text

• answer

• evidence

• cite

the marks such as period, comma or parenthes

• ending

• punctuation

• paragraph

to give a brief statement covering the main points of something

• evaluate

• summarize

• answer

examine in detail

• analyze

• support

• evidence