Academic Vocabulary

To show how things are alike or similar

• contrast

• compare

• support

• describe

To separate into the main parts and look carefully at each part

• infer

• explain

• analyze

• cause

To make something clear by giving reasons

• infer

• persuade

• cause

• explain

To restate the important ideas or events from a text in a shorter way

• summarize

• evidence

• text

• strategy

Point out or show.

• Motivate

• Evaluate

• Establish

• Indicate

I can use this tool to look up the definitions of unfamiliar words in the text.

• Dictionary

• Highlighter

• Eliminator

• Zoom

Sometimes writers are hard to understand, but she wrote with great _____.

• audience

• credibility

• clarity

• confidant

What is an excerpt?

• Part of a text

• Question

• Answer

Malik received an _________________ message from his family in Iraq. The protests were getting violent, and they were worried that they might not be allowed to leave.

• urgent

• skeptical

• passionate

• celebratory

Support from the text to back up your ideas, inferences or conclusions; proof

• strategy

• text

• summarize

• evidence