SBAC Test Prep Vocabulary #1

Underlying message or lesson about life in a story

• Theme

• Develop

• Dialogue

• Inference

Advance or elaborate

• Develop

• Inference

• Evidence

• Credible

Conversation between 2 or more people in a book or story. Always offset by quotation marks

• Credible

• Inference

• Dialogue

• Evidence

A conclusion based on evidence

• Trustworthy

• Purpose

• Credible

• Inference

The “big idea” or what the Author is trying to tell the reader.

• Cite

• Evidence

• Author’s Message

• Credible

Able to believe; trustworthy

• Theme

• Credible

• Develop

• Evidence

To use evidence to support your answer

• Cite

• Credible

• Trustworthy

• Purpose

The marks such as period, comma or parenthesis

• Credible

• Punctuation

• Dialogue

• Inference

The reason for something

• Punctuation

• Purpose

• Summarize

• Trustworthy

Able to believe or rely on

• Trustworthy

• Summarize

• Cite

• Credible