Academic Vocabulary #1

What are criteria?

• good grades

• guidelines

• completing all of your requirements

• standards by which something is judged

If you meet all the _________ for the project, you will meet your learning goals.

• claims

• specific

• criteria

• evidence

What is the definition of analyze?

• break down

• standards by which something is judged

• to examine the characteristics of something

• to study or determine the nature and relationship of the parts of

When you _______ a character in a book, think about how they act and why they act that way. Think about what they say, their actions, and what the narrator describes about their feelings.

• compare

• analyze

• justify

• evidence

What is the meaning of evidence?

• substantiation

• something that gives proof

• details

• disproof

When you make a claim in your writing, be sure to provide detailed _______ to support it.

• paraphrase

• viewpoint

• justify

• evidence

What does compare mean?

• to give in order

• to retell in your own words

• to look closely at something in order to show likenesses and differences

• to prove or show to be right or reasonable

What is the meaning of justify?

• to prove or show to be right or reasonable

• to make a statement based on observations and inferences

• defend

• give a point of view

Please _______ your claim by finding and explaining specific details from the text.

• compare

• analyze

• opinion

• justify

If you are asked to ________ two articles, you may look for information that both give or ways that the articles are different from one another.

• opinion

• paraphrase

• justify

• compare