Academic Vocabulary Words

What does it mean to make a smart guess about what’s going to happen next?

• predict

• analyze

• clarify

• visualize

Tags

CCSS.RF.5.3A

CCSS.RF.4.4A

CCSS.RF 4.3.A

CCSS.RF.4.4C

CCSS.RF.3.3A

What does it mean to study each part (pay attention to details)?

• analyze

• visualize

• predict

• clarify

Tags

CCSS.RF.5.3A

CCSS.RF.3.4B

CCSS.RF.3.4C

CCSS.RF.5.4A

CCSS.RF.4.4C

What does it mean to imagine a picture in your mind?

• visualize

• clarify

• predict

• analyze

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.3.2E

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.5.6

CCSS.L.6.6

What does it mean to look closer at something when it is confusing?

• analyze

• predict

• clarify

• visualize

Tags

CCSS.RF.5.3A

CCSS.RF.3.4B

CCSS.RF.3.4C

CCSS.RF 4.3.A

CCSS.RF.3.4A

What does it mean to connect what you’re reading to something else?

• make connections

• summarize

• infer

• support

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.RI.4.4

What does it mean to think about what you know and use clues from the text (read between the lines)?

• summarize

• support

• make connections

• infer

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.4B

CCSS.RF.3.4C

CCSS.RF.4.4A

CCSS.RF.5.4A

CCSS.RF.3.3C

What does it mean retell the main ideas or most important parts of the story?

• make connections

• summarize

• infer

• support

Tags

CCSS.RF.5.3A

CCSS.RF.4.4A

CCSS.RF.5.4A

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.5.4B

What are you doing when you back up your answers with examples from the text or a source (evidence)?

• support

• infer

• summarize

• make connections

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.RI.4.4

When you compare, you...

• Tell why or how something is

  (what is happening or going on)

• Use clues from the text to help you figure out the meaning of an unknown word

• Ask yourself how are things different

• Ask yourself how are things alike

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

When you explain, you...

• Ask yourself how are things alike

• Ask yourself how are things different

• Tell why or how something is

  (what is happening or going on)

• Use clues from the text to help you figure out the meaning of an unknown word

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.4.2D