Unit 3 Vocab

Select all that apply:

To infer means to...

• use your background knowledge to make an educated guess about something in a reading

• use what the author explicitly says to determine something about a character

• use what the text says to back up an educated guess about something in a reading

• to inform

analyze means to...

• explain something in great detail

• examine something in great detail

• use your background knowledge to make an educated guess about something

• create something in great detail

in the context of our standard, conclusions are...

• endings

• beginnings

• judgments or decisions reached by reasoning

• judgments or decisions reached by opinions

to cite something means to...

• to refer to or quote a part of a text as evidence

• to create a website

• to claim something as your own

• vision

in the context of our standard, evidence is...

• clues in an investigation

• something police use

• an inference

• taken from the text to support an inference or analysis

When an author says something explicitly, it means you...

• have to make an inference because they don't directly tell you something

• don't have to make an inference because they directly tell you something

• see a lot of swear words

• should stop reading

Select all that apply.

As readers, we use context to help us with the following:

• making inferences

• making predictions

• figuring out unknown words

• nothing

The central idea of a text tells you...

• a specific detail about the subject

• inferences

• where the middle of the text is

• the main idea of the text

When you summarize a text, you should include:

• the main ideas and/or events

• a lot of very specific detail

• not very much information

• personal opinion

The phrase from one of our standards, "distinct from personal opinion" means...

• you should definitely include your personal opinions in your summary

• you should include your friend's personal opinions in your summary

• you should not include your personal opinions in your summary