Vocabulary

Words that may be found in any text, regardless of subject area

• analyze

• academic language

• content

• appeal to senses

discover something through detailed examination, to seperate it into parts

• academic language

• claim

• analyze

• determine

refer to sight, hearing, smell, touch, and taste

• chronological

• contribute

• implicit

• appeal to the senses

the author’s thought or opinion

• author's idea

• metaphor

• point of view

• mood

a text structure that presents information according to the progress of time (times, dates, years, etc.). All chronologies are sequential, but not vice versa.

• cite evidence

• interpret

• chronological

• perspective

provide a quote that shows information used as support for whether a statement is true or not

• analyze

• claim

• cite evidence

• determine

an assertion, typically one that is disputed or in doubt

• implicit

• contribute

• compare/contrast

• claim

a text structure that explains how two or more people, places, things, or ideas are alike and/or how they are different

• contribute

• point of view

• author's idea

• compare/contrast

all that is dealt with in a piece of writing

• content

• phrase

• relevant

• tone

to be an important factor in; help to cause

• determine

• implicit

• contribute

• interpret