Spring Training Vocab-2

the lesson the author wants us to learn

• moral

• main idea

• summarize

• support

details and evidence that prove your writing

• possessive

• point of view

• support

• verbs

gives facts and information about a topic

• opinion writing

• informative writing

• narrative writing

• essay writing

also known as figurative language; words that mean something different than what is written

• literal language

• nonliteral language

• support

• article

a word that identifies the noun that comes after it (a/an/the)

• verb

• adjective

• article

• contraction

tells a story

• opinion writing

• informative writing

• literal language

• narrative writing

a word made by shortening and combining two words using an apostrophe

• contraction

• quotation marks

• compound word

• article

tells what the author thinks or feels about a topic and gives reasons to support it

• informative writing

• opinion writing

• narrative writing

• expository

to draw a conclusion based on evidence from the text

• apostrophe

• infer

• text features

• contraction

words used to mean exactly what is written

• nonliteral language

• figurative language

• idioms

• literal language