List 1 Academic Vocabulary

To say what is going to happen before it occurs

• predict

• analyze

• confirm

• infer

A comparison made between two different things that are similar in some way

• context clue

• analogy

• illustrating

• nonfiction

Explain or make ideas clear using examples, charts, graphs or picture

• analogy

• audience

• visualize

• illustrate

Prose writing based on facts, real events, and real people such as biography, or history

• illustrate

• analogy

• nonfiction

• visualize

Information from reading that hints at a word’s meaning

• confirm

• context clues

• visualize

• modify

To come to a logical conclusion based on evidence

• infer

• confirm

• modify

• predict

State or show that something is true or correct; to verify

• infer

• confirm

• modify

• predict

Having to do with education or school

• audience

• analyze

• academic

• nonfiction

Author’s reason for writing

• Author’s intent or purpose

• Author’s Message

• Author’s point of view

• Audience

To change some parts of something

• infer

• modify

• confirn

• analyze