Academic Vocabulary ELA

What is a movement, passage, or change from one position, state, stage, subject, concept, etc., to another?

• Evaluation

• Transition

• Analogy

• Deconstruction

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

What is it called when the information within a text is organized?

• Textual Evidence

• Text Feature

• Text Structure

• Transition

Tags

CCSS.RI.1.5

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.K.5

When the test opinions are used to emphasize points or information within a text, it is called what?

• Textual Evidence

• Text Structure

• Evidence

• Text Feature

Tags

CCSS.RI.1.5

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.K.5

What is to examine critically, so as to bring out the essential elements or give the essence of?

• Evaluate

• Identify

• Synthesize

• Analyze

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

To judge or determine the significance, worth or quality of; to assess is to...?

• Evaluate

• Analyze

• Infer

• Synthesize

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

To recognize or establish as being a particular thing is to...?

• Anayze

• Evaluate

• Identity

• Infer

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

To form by combining parts or elements; to bring together information from multiple source is called what?

• Analyze

• Infer

• Synthesize

• Evaluate

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

What does it mean to derive by reasoning; conclude or judge from premises or evidence.

• Infer

• Analyze

• Evaluate

• Identity

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

What is to compare in order to show differences?

• Compare

• Analyze

• Contrast

• Evaluate

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

What is the meaning of the word "figurative"?

• literal

• small numbers

• symbolic, not literal

• explained

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4