Academic Vocabulary

When something benefits something else it is...

• not good

• strange

• helpful

• using the 5 senses

Tags

CCSS.L.5.6

CCSS.L.6.2B

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.2B

CCSS.L.8.2C

A viewpoint can represent the _______ of an author.

• opinion

• question

• plot

• thinking

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

When looking at a graded paper, an X usually ________ a wrong answer.

• contributes

• helps

• determines

• indicates

Tags

CCSS.L.5.6

CCSS.L.6.2B

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.2B

CCSS.L.8.2C

Conversation between characters in a story is an author's use of ________ and will include quotation marks.

• inference

• dialogue

• emphasis

• suggests

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Sensory language is used by an author to show ...

• what something was before it changed.

• what something smells like, looks like, sounds like, feels like, or how it tastes

• a decision

• a good result

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Illustrate does not always mean to draw a picture, it could also mean to...

• explain with examples to help the reader understand a message or idea

• show importance

• make decision based on prior knowledge

• talk someone into something

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

To make something clear and understandable it to...

• suggest it

• clarify it

• contribute it

• factor it

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

When question asks you about what something "suggests", it is referring to what the detail...

• hints as, or causes one to think

• explains using examples

• shows it importance

• concludes

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

The enemy of the main character.

• protagonist

• antagonist

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

A statement that can be proven true.

• opinion

• dialogue

• excerpt

• fact

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D