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| Analyze | To break apart a subject; examine each part, and explain the relationship between the parts. |
| Main idea | The most important idea about a topic that a piece of writing can convey. |
| Summarize | To briefly retell the main idea of a text in your own words. |
| Evidence | A specific piece of information that supports a claim. |
| Reasons | Details that tell why an opinion is valid or why something matters. |
| Supporting details | Words, phrases, or sentences that tell more about the main idea or topic sentence. |
| Paraphrase | To state someone else’s written work in your own words. |
| Cite | To give credit to the original source of a text or idea. |
| Topic sentence | A sentence that states the main idea of a paragraph. |
| Evaluate | To decide the value or worth of a text/source after reading it closely. |
| First person point of view | The telling of a story by a narrator who is a character in the story and describes his or her own thoughts and feelings and uses the pronoun “I”. |
| Third person point of view - omniscient | The telling of a story by a narrator who is not a character in the story and reveals the thoughts and feelings of all the characters. |
| Third person point of view - limited | The telling of a story by a narrator who is not a character in the story and he or she tells the thoughts and feelings of only one character. |
| Characterization | This is the act of creating and developing a character. Authors use two major methods of this: direct and indirect. |
| Character traits | These are the individual qualities that make each character unique, such as kindness or courage. |
| Conflict | This is a struggle between opposing forces and is one of the most important elements of stories, novels, and plays. |
| Perspective | This is a particular way of looking at something; point of view. |
| Compare | This means to note similarities or things that are the same between two different texts, ideas or characters. |
| Contrast | This means to note differences between two texts, ideas or characters. |
| Dialogue | This is a conversation between characters. In poems, novels and short stories, dialogue is usually set off by quotation marks to indicate a speaker’s exact words. |
| Mood | The feeling created by a piece of writing when a writer uses imagery, word choice, and descriptive details, |
| Claim | The writer’s opinion on an issue or problem in an argument. |
| Argument | The writer states and supports a claim or opinion, based on factual evidence and logical reasoning. |
| Interview | A conversation between a journalist and a person of public interest to discover their opinions or interest. |
| Source | A person, place, or thing which provides information, like a book or document. |
| Media | Media is the way that stories and information are shared. Books, magazines, film, video, and digital are types of media. |
| Response | This means a verbal or written answer to a question. |
| Sound effects | These are artificially created or enhanced sounds that are used to emphasize something in a film, performance, video, or audio. |
| Body language | This means the gestures, movements, and mannerisms by which a person communicates with others. |
| Effect | NOUN – This is a change that is a result or consequence of an action or other cause. |
| Context clue | These are hints that the author gives to help define a difficult or unusual word. The hint may appear within the same sentence as the word to which it refers, or it may follow in a preceding sentence. |
| Clarify | This means to make something easier to understand, usually by explaining it in more detail. |
| Text structure | This refers to how the information within a written text is organized. It helps readers understand that a text might present a main idea and details; a cause and then its effects; and/or different views of a topic. |
| Author’s purpose | This is the main reason for writing. For example, the reason might be to entertain, inform, or persuade the reader. Sometimes the writer is trying to teach a moral lesson or reflect on an experience. |
| Anecdote | This is a brief story about an interesting, amusing, or strange event, told to entertain or to make a point. |
