ELA Next Generation Academic Vocabulary Set 1

A concept or idea that is most important to a text or section of a text.

• Connotation

• Central Idea

• Evidence

• Claim

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

To select from a number of possibilities. Similar words: select, pick, determine, identify.

• Choose

• Claim

• Cite

• Connotation

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

To support an idea or opinion by referring to sources (texts, media, images, etc.) 

• Central Idea

• Define

• Cite

• Choose

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

A statement that can be supported with

evidence.

• Claim

• Contrast

• Evidence

• Cite

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

Something suggested by a word or thing.

• Contrast

• Denotation

• Define

• Connotation

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

Meaning of a word, phrase; definition

• Evidence

• Compare

• Define

• Cite

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

What a word actually means.

• Evidence

• Denotation

• Central Idea

• Claim

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Identify how things are alike or similar.

• Compare

• Connotation

• Cite

• Choose

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

Characteristics that are not alike. Identify how things are different.

• Connotation

• Cite

• Contrast

• Claim

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

Facts, figures, details, quotations, or other sources of information that provide support 

for claims; can be checked by others.

• Evidence

• Denotation

• Central Idea

• Define

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.2