Academic Words 1-16

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Across
  1. 1. Where the story takes place.
  2. 4. To make something more clear by giving more details or facts.
  3. 5. To help or add to.
  4. 7. A piece of text that is taken from a larger body of writing.
  5. 9. A statement that provides your answer.
  6. 11. An explanation; the cause of an action or event.
  7. 12. Proof or facts to support your answer.
  8. 13. A conversation between characters.
  9. 14. All of the important events that make up a story; the main parts of a story.
Down
  1. 2. Being able to figure something out based on evidence and reasoning.
  2. 3. A story.
  3. 5. Stating just the main points.
  4. 6. Descriptive words that appeal to the senses (touch, taste, smell, hearing, sight)
  5. 8. To quote a text in order to use it as evidence for an answer.
  6. 9. idea The main idea; the overall message of the entire text you are reading.
  7. 10. The feeling the story is trying to create.