Academic Vocabulary-Informational Text

The author's attitude toward the subject

• Claim

• Citation

• Tone

• Thesis

Notes added to a text while participating in active reading

• Fallacy

• Denotative

• Rhetoric

• Annotation

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

The choice and use of words and phrases in speech and writing

• Diction

• Argument

• Connotative

• Point-of-View

The author's reason for writing the piece

• Central Idea

• Purpose

• Sufficient

• Logos

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

A statement, reason, or fact for or against a point

• Pathos

• Credibility

• Relevant

• Argument

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.8

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.8.8

A subject for a composition or essay

• Thesis

• Tone

• Explicit

• Counterclaim

The persons reached by a book, radio, or television broadcast, etc.

• Citation

• Inference

• Audience

• Relevant

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

An appeal to ethics and credibility

• Diction

• Logos

• Fallacious Reasoning

• Ethos

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

A conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning

• Central Idea

• Claim

• Tone

• Inference

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

An assertion of something as a fact

• Claim

• Fallacy

• Relevant

• Rhetoric