Vocabulary Practices

To break something down into parts

• Articulate

• Evaluate

• Analyze

• Determine

Make clear by reasoning or evidence, illustrating with examples or practical application.

• Demonstrate
• Determine
• To what extent
• Explain
• Identify

To find value or judge after thinking carefully about it

• Compare

• Evaluate

• Trace

• Draw

To explain the meaning of something

• Interpret

• Retell

• Synthesize

• Evaluate

Define: Central Idea

• The moral of a story.

• The message of a story.

• The main point of the story.

• The theme

Try to give convincing reasons in order to get someone to do or believe something

• persuade

• explain

• state

• analyze