23-24 RL.8.1-2 Vocabulary

Information from the text to support an idea

• summary

• inference

• objective

• text evidence

Educated guess based on background knowledge and text evidence 

• emerges

• inference

• accurate

• refined

How an idea is developed/formed in a text

• shaped

• text evidence

• refined

• emerges

Moral or lesson learned in a story

• setting

• summary

• theme

• accurate

To be revealed or shown

• emerges

• objective

• inference

• shaped

Correct means

Brief/short restatement/retelling of most important details of a text in your own words 

• summary

• explanation

• objective

• subjective

Does not include personal opinions/feelings

• subjective

• accurate

• objective

• inference

Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical 

______ from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking 

to support conclusions drawn from the text

• summary

• text evidence

• theme

• inferences

Determine central ideas or _____ of a text and analyze their 

development; _____ the key supporting details and ideas

• themes; summarize

• explanations; explain

• objects; theorize