ELA Unit 2 Influencing Choices Vocabulary

the art of using words to persuade in writing or speaking

• counterclaim

• rhetoric

• debate

• argument

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.L.8.6

elements of text designed to help locate, organize, and understand information ie. text divisions, graphics, and special formatting

• claim

• audience

• research

• text features

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

any text that gives you information; generally factual Examples: advertisement, textbook, instructions, cookbook, Wikipedia, menus

• informational text

• text features

• explanatory writing

• argument

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

something that can be proven

• opinion

• fact

• credibility

• evidence

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

something that cannot be proven, a perspective that can be debated

• opinion

• fact

• credibility

• inference

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

the process of locating information from a variety of sources; the information found in a variety of sources

• text features

• explanatory writing

• research

• primary source

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.8.6

a form of writing whose purpose it is to inform or explain

• narrative writing

• explanatory writing

• persuasive writing

• descriptive writing

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.8.6

the quality of being trusted or believed

• fact

• opinion

• credibility

• inference

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

an original document containing firsthand information about a subject

• primary source

• secondary source

• claim

• thesis

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

discussion about or commentary on a primary source; the key feature is that it offers an interpretation of information gathered from primary sources

• primary source

• secondary source

• credibility

• purpose

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9