CAASPP Vocabulary

Analyze

• break something down into parts

• to mention

• to find and point out

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Argument

• The reason for which something is done

• Take a position on a problem and support it with reasons and evidence

• Who is telling the story

Author's Purpose

• Closely connected to

• Help prove your claim

• The reason why an author has decided to write about a specific topic.

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.6

CCSS.RI.7.6

CCSS.RI.7.9

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

Cause and effect

• Who is telling the story

• The event that happens first and the event that follows, or when one event brings about another

• To retell the main points of the story

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.3

CCSS.RI.5.3

CCSS.RI.6.3

CCSS.RI.7.3

CCSS.RI.8.3

Character

• A person

• To quote

• A person who appears in a story, book, play, movie, or television

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

Cite

• To quote

• Helps prove your point

• To outline

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Claim

• Who is telling the story

• To find value or judge

• A position a writer takes on an issue or problem

Connection

• To mention

• A relationship between two or more things

• Who is telling the story

Tags

CCSS.RF.1.3A

CCSS.RF.1.3D

CCSS.RI.1.3

CCSS.RI.2.3

CCSS.RI.3.8

Determine

• To decide

• The reason for which something is done

• The life message of the story

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

Evaluate

• To find value or judge

• The feeling created in a story

• To put into different words

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2