RICAS ELA Vocabulary

Analyze

• To Separate Into Parts

• To Tell What Happened and Why

• To Tell How and Why

Argue

• To Quote As an Example

• Part of a Longer Text

• To Prove Points By Using Facts

To Tell What Happened and Why

• Cause and Effect

• Express

• Draw

To Quote as an Example

• Review

• Show

• Cite

To Recognize and Explain

• Support

• Something That Happened

• Identify

To reexamine the main points or highlights of something

• Generalize

• Analyze

• Describe and Discuss

• Review

Part of a Longer Text

• Selection

• Excerpt

• Summarize

To List Chronologically In Order

• Selection

• Trace

• List

Something That Happened

• Support

• Point Out

• Occurred

Give an Answer

• Respond

• Identify

• Tell