Smarter Vocab

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Across
  1. 4. the author’s main point/message of the story
  2. 5. to tell only the most important pieces of information in a text
  3. 7. words and phrases that appeal to the five senses (smell, touch, taste, hearing, & sight)
  4. 8. explanations that tell why the evidence supports the claim
  5. 9. exact, accurate
  6. 13. to copy words from a source—always uses “quotation marks”
  7. 14. a piece of a word that attaches to a root word to change the meaning (can be a suffix or prefix)
  8. 16. a word that has the opposite meaning of another word
Down
  1. 1. another word for claim/argument
  2. 2. to state something in your own words
  3. 3. a word that has the same meaning as another word
  4. 6. an argument that goes against the claim
  5. 10. details from a source that support the claim
  6. 11. the author’s argument
  7. 12. to prove why something is right
  8. 15. to assume something based on information