ELA Academic Language
Across
- 3. using multiple modes (image + sound)
- 5. organization, how the structure creates meaning
- 11. facts/examples supporting a claim
- 12. feeling a word evokes
- 14. time and place
- 18. Elements & Story Structure
- 19. how correct/factual info is
- 21. intended readers
- 25. sentence: two+ independent clauses + dependent clause
- 26. assertion that something is true
- 30. information: info that helps readers contextualize a text
- 31. collection of facts or statistics
- 32. separates elements
- 33. conjunction: paired conjunctions (either/or, both/and)
- 37. numerical facts
- 39. reason text exists
- 42. literal meaning
- 44. shows omission or pause
- 47. central message or idea
- 49. introduces lists or explanations
- 52. look closely at the parts to understand the whole
- 53. opinion preventing neutrality
- 56. devices, tools such as flashback or foreshadowing
- 57. techniques, methods used to craft plot, characters, setting
- 59. blending quoted/paraphrased info smoothly
- 61. interrupt or emphasize
- 64. device, techniques authors use
- 65. to set up or create
- 66. a way of thinking about and understanding something
- 70. period: historical era a text was created in
- 71. mode, avenue for accessing text
- 72. to find or locate
Down
- 1. how closely information connects to a topic
- 2. sentence: one independent clause
- 4. reviewing, selecting, organizing sources
- 6. balance of mystery + information creating interest
- 7. details, facts or examples that support an idea
- 8. joins independent clauses
- 9. information known to be true
- 10. showing differences
- 13. evidence refuting the counterclaim
- 15. idea, central point an author conveys
- 16. opposing argument
- 17. person/figure who moves the plot
- 20. reasonable to trust
- 22. idea, main thought guiding a text
- 23. struggle between opposing forces
- 24. where information is obtained
- 27. & Connecting Words
- 28. add extra info
- 29. features, design elements (headings, captions, charts)
- 32. group containing subject & predicate
- 34. adverb: adverb linking two independent clauses
- 35. & Source-Based Vocabulary
- 36. group of related words
- 38. quality of being believable
- 40. sentence: independent + dependent clause
- 41. sentence: two independent clauses
- 43. Sentences, Clauses & Phrases
- 45. formal written or spoken statement
- 46. of closure: ending that sums up the purpose
- 48. techniques, methods to explain/inform using facts & details
- 50. of Precision & Meaning
- 51. of speech: categories describing word function
- 54. determine value or effectiveness
- 55. language, language creating images beyond literal meaning
- 58. ways of understanding meaning
- 60. sequence of events
- 62. uncertainty that keeps readers engaged
- 63. to tell differences between items
- 67. circumstances around a text
- 68. traditional stories explaining origins or phenomena
- 69. tense: time of action