CA#3 Study Vocab Word Scramble
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| Term | Definition |
| Causality | When an author uses cause and effect to support a position. |
| Cause and Effect | When one event causes something else to happen. |
| Comparison | When authors compare two things and give reasons why one thing is better or worse than the other in order to support their position. |
| Conclusion | The answer you come up with after you have inferred. |
| Context Clues | Words, phrases, and other evidence from the text that can help you figure out the meaning of a word you don't know. |
| Contradictory Statements | When an author says two things in a text that both cannot be true. |
| Drawing Conclusions | Using evidence from the text PLUS your background knowledge to come up with a conclusion, or an answer. |
| Evidence | The reasons or arguments that an author uses to persuade the reader to agree. |
| Exaggerated Statements | When an author stretches the truth to make something sound much better or much worse than it really is. |
| Inferring | Using clues from the text PLUS your background knowledge to help figure out what the author means. |
| Making Connections | Connecting something you read with something from your own life to help better understand what you are reading and to make sense of new information. |
| Misleading Statements | When an author says something that leads you to think something that isn't true. |
| Parallelism | When an author uses repetition of ideas, words, or phrases that sound alike to emphasize a point in support of their position. |
| Paraphrase | Using your own words to retell something an author said. |
| Persuasion | A text that tries to persuade someone to act or think a certain way. |
| Position | What the author believes, or the author's point of view, about a certain issue or topic. |
| Quote | Using the EXACT words the author already used by putting those words in quotation marks - for example, every morning Mr. Yoes says "Good morning, Lanier Lions!" |
| Summarize | To retell in your own words the most important parts of a text. |
| Summary | A short retelling of the main ideas from a text. It should only contain 2-3 sentences and be told in sequence. |
| Text-to-Self Connection | When something you read in a text reminds you of something in your own life and experience. |
| Text-to-Text Connection | When something you read in a text reminds you of something you read in another text. |
| Text-to-World Connection | When something you red in a text reminds you of something else in the world. |
| Textual Evidence | Words, phrases, and details from the text that supports or proves your answer or your thinking. |
| Theme | A "big idea" from a story, book, or other text. A text can have more than one theme. |
Created by:
Deb McKay
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