Back to School: Academic Vocabulary

5. Fully or clearly expressed or define.
6. The reason an author uses a particular technique.
8. To find the important details or recognize what the question is asking for.
10. To think carefully and deeply about something.
13. To briefly restate the main ideas of the text.
15. To arrange or order things.
16. Restate an author's ideas in different words.
18. To look closely at something, especially by separating it into parts, in order to understand or explain how each part relates to the other.
19. Factual information in the form of a paraphrase or quotation that proves or supports a point something is true.

1. To calculate or decide about something based on evidence or fact.
2. To explain the meaning of something using clues or evidence by putting the information in your own words.
3. To tell or interpret information in a way that is easy to understand, using examples, evidence or details.
4. To identify similarities and differences in two or more things .
7. To justify with facts or evidence why you believe or agree something is reasonable.
9. To tell in detail relevant characteristics, qualities, or events.
11. To reach an educated guess or educated conclusion based on text evidence and background knowledge.
12. Implied; understood but not stated.
14. Extending ideas through the use of facts, descriptions, details, or quotations.
17. to make a judgment about the value of something or to solve by reaching an overall conclusion.
20. To make an idea clear by adding details or commentary, write more about an idea by explaining the different parts of it in greater detail to become more significant.