Expository Academic Vocabulary

Author’s purpose

• Words around a picture that helps describe it.

• The reason the author wrote the piece

• why something happens

• to reach a decision or opinion about

Bias

• to go against; to disagree

• basing a conclusion on a personal opinion rather tan facts

• An event that happened; follow the cause

• Hints in a text that helps the reader understand a difficult or unusual word

Caption

• A pattern of a text in which ideas are presented in order they occurred in

• An event that happened; follow the cause

• why something happens

• Words around a picture that helps describe it.

Cause

• why something happens

• The reason the author wrote the piece

• A text that informs, gives directions, describes or explains an idea

• Specific facts and descriptions that help the reader understand the main idea

Cause and effect

• to reach a decision or opinion about

• A pattern of nonfiction text that looks at the similarities and differences

• A pattern of nonfiction text in which the relationship between an event and the reason why the event occurred.

• An important or distinctive part or characteristics of something

Compare and contrast

• A pattern of nonfiction text that looks at the similarities and differences

• Hints in a text that helps the reader understand a difficult or unusual word

• Part of a text taken from a book

• to tell

Conclude

• The reason the author wrote the piece

• why something happens

• to reach a decision or opinion about

• Words around a picture that helps describe it.

Context clues

• Something that is drawn

• A drawing that shows or explains something …usually includes labels and captions

• Hints in a text that helps the reader understand a difficult or unusual word

• A pattern of a text in which ideas are presented in order they occurred in

Excerpt

• A pattern of nonfiction text that looks at the similarities and differences

• Something that is drawn

• Part of a text taken from a book

• Writing that gives information to the reader

Contradict

• An important or distinctive part or characteristics of something

• to go against; to disagree

• Something that can be proven

• Something that is drawn