ELA SC Ready Vocabulary

Question 1

how to documents and advertisements/brochures

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functional

Question 2

tell the main parts/bottom line/main idea

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summarize

Question 3

list similarities/all the ways that they are alike

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compare

Question 4

a genre that has fictional talking animals/has a moral or lesson

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fable/folktale

Question 5

judge/value of/meaning/examine/tell good and bad

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evaluate

Question 6

figure out/read between the lines/predict/what are they trying to say

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infer

Question 7

free verse, lyric, and Haiku

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poetry

Question 8

the author's attitude toward the subject matter of the story

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tone

Question 9

provide reasons/tell reasons/give examples/back it up

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support

Question 10

list differences/all the ways they are different

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contrast

Question 11

how the story is being narrated: first person or third person

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point of view

Question 12

what a passage or essay is mostly about

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main idea/central idea

Question 13

tell about/show me/list details

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describe

Question 14

break apart/break into pieces

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analyze

Question 15

narratives or excerpts from longer fiction

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short stories

Question 16

tell all about, tell what and why, tell how, teach someone else

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explain

Question 17

follow/track outline/list in steps

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trace

Question 18

writing about real events/not made up

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nonfiction

Question 19

essays/articles/biographies

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informational

Question 20

educated guess/tell what could or may happen

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prediction

Question 21

when and where the story takes place

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setting

Questions 21