Unit 1- Vocab

What does the word "annotate" mean?

• To summarize a text in your own words

• To add notes or comments to a text to mark significant features and/or personal commentary

• To predict what will happen next in a story

• To send a letter to someone

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.L.9-10.6

What is the definition of "audience"?

• The person who writes the text

• The intended target group for a message, regardless of the medium

• The editor of the text

• The person who prints the text

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.L.9-10.6

What does "collaboration" mean?

• Working alone on a project

• The process of two or more people working together to create or achieve the same thing wherein each member speaks, is heard, and takes ownership of the resulting product or activity

• Sending a message to someone

• Reading a text silently

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

What is the definition of "correspondence"?

• A summary of a text

• Any written or digital communication exchanged between two or more people in the form of a letter, e-mail, fax, etc.

• A prediction about the future

• A list of vocabulary words

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

What does the word "inference" mean?

• A direct quote from a text

• A logical guess made by connecting bits of information

• A type of letter

• A summary of a story

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

What is the definition of "paraphrase"?

• Copy text word for word

• Restate the meaning of something in different words. Paraphrasing alters the exact wording of the source and transmits its ideas or information without evaluation or interpretation.

• Make a prediction about a text

• Write a letter to the author

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

What does "prediction" mean?

• A summary of a text

• A form of inference in which the reader gathers and analyzes details in order to anticipate and foresee forthcoming events and information

• A type of correspondence

• A direct quote from a text

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

What is the definition of "summarize"?

• Add personal commentary to a text

• To reduce large sections of text to their essential points and main idea. Note: It is still important to attribute summarized ideas to the original source.

• Write a letter to the author

• Make a logical guess about the text

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

What is a genre?

• a logical guess made by connecting bits of information

• categories of written or performed works, characterized by similarities in structures, features, form, and content.

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• a form of inference in which the reader gathers and analyzes details in order to anticipate and foresee forthcoming events and information

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.L.6.6