Argumentative Outline, CAASPP Practice

When you use information from an article to back up what you are saying, it is called what? (when you give respect to the original author)

• citing introductions

• Milkshake

• Citing evidence

Read the sentences from the passage and make an inference.

Day after day they dug. Their neighbor was astonished to see how long and hard the young men worked.

What does the word astonished most likely mean?

• disappointed

• discovered

• satisfied

• surprised

The actual words from something you read; a quotation/quote.

• textual evidence

• argumentative essay

A position the author explains and defends is their...

• evidence

• supporting detail

• claim

Information that is used as evidence to support a claim.

• Supporting Detail

• Counterclaim

• Hook

Opposing views the author presents and disproves is the... (the other side)

• Controlling Idea

• Claim

• Counterclaim

What do you call pieces of information that support or tell more about the main idea?

• details

• grammar

• demonstrate

When you are told to back up or justify your opinion/claim with evidence, you are being asked to do what?

• support

• infer

• determine

This is the formula for what?

FORMULA: Your prior knowledge plus what you have just read/learned is called what?

• inference

• describe

• explain

What is visually descriptive language that appeals to the 5 senses called?

• imagery

• figurative language

• idioms