Tier Two Academic Vocabulary Quiz

To have a clear idea of what a reading passage or word means by breaking down the parts

• Decode

• Contrast

• Compare

• Argue

The last part of a reading passage; a final opinion formed after reading a passage.

• Infer

• Infer

• Compare

• Conclude

Match the following

• Determine

• To study something closely and carefully; look at something critically in order to understand

• clarify

• To come to a judgment after reading a passage or question; to give an opinion about an issue.

• Evaluate

• To determine the value, amount, importance or effectiveness of of something in order to understand if it matters or means something

• infer

• An opinion arrived through a process of reasoning based on background knowledge and evidence from the text.

• Analyze

• to make something more understandable to the reader.

To form by putting together parts of information when reading a passage

• Organize

• Construct

• Sequence

• Main Idea

A short section in the beginning of a text that sets the stage for the reader and states what the passage will be about.

• Infer

• Point of View

• Introduction

• Argue

A shortened version of the key events or ideas of a piece of text.

• Argue

• analyze

• Conclude

• Summary

Match the following

• Integrate

• Something mentioned in a passage that provides related and especially supportive information.

• Organize

• To provide reasons for what happened in order to clarify, justify, or define those events, actions, causes or effects

• Support

• To make whole by combining the different parts into one; to join or make something part of a larger unit

• Explain

• To arrange or put in order; to work out the details of a passage and put in a meaningful order

• Source

• To provide evidence or information that proves an answer correct.

to see a picture in your mind

• Contrast

• Compare

• Imagine

• Conclude

To state something as a reason in support of or against something under construction.

• Analyze

• Argue

• Compare

• Conclude

To put into action what you know; to have a relation or connection.

• Apply

• Conclude

• Point of view

• Show