Across
- 2. Technical Meaning: Understanding specialized vocabulary within context.
- 3. Abundant in supply or quantity.
- 4. a universal statement about life
- 8. Evidence that is closely connected and enough to support a claim.
- 10. How a text is organized (e.g., chronological, cause/effect).
- 14. The audience’s emotions reading a text
- 15. To decide or settle through investigation.
- 16. Identify similarities and differences between texts or ideas.
- 18. The author’s opinion of the topic they’re writing about
- 20. Extremely complex and difficult to follow.
- 22. Unnecessary, especially through being more than enough.
- 23. Dealing with things sensibly and realistically.
- 25. Judge the quality, value, or strength of an argument.
- 27. To prove a statement or theory to be wrong.
- 28. Structure: Know how to identify a claim and evaluate the supporting evidence.
Down
- 1. Based on a hypothesis; supposed.
- 5. Combine information from multiple sources to create a new understanding.
- 6. Intended to placate or pacify.
- 7. Idea: The main idea of a nonfiction text
- 9. A position or assertion that is backed by evidence.
- 11. Draw a conclusion based on evidence and reasoning, not directly stated.
- 12. Quote or paraphrase a source to support a claim.
- 13. A change in tone, style, or perspective in a passage.
- 17. Open to more than one interpretation.
- 19. Lasting for a very short time.
- 21. Essentially different in kind.
- 24. Break down a text into parts to understand how it works.
- 26. Clues: Use surrounding text to define unfamiliar words.