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Academic Vocabulary

Academic Vocabulary. Tennessee 2010-2011. Academic Vocabulary. Alliteration Analogy Audience (as listeners) Author’s purpose Caption Compare Contrast Double-negative Drawing conclusions Fable Genre Homonyms Index Making inferences Metaphor Outline

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Academic Vocabulary

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  1. Academic Vocabulary Tennessee 2010-2011

  2. Academic Vocabulary • Alliteration • Analogy • Audience (as listeners) • Author’s purpose • Caption • Compare • Contrast • Double-negative • Drawing conclusions • Fable • Genre • Homonyms • Index • Making inferences • Metaphor • Outline • Possessive nouns • Prediction • Proofread • Quotations/quotation marks • Sentence fragment • Simile • Subject/verb agreement • Time order/transitional • words • Topic sentence • Verb tense

  3. Words to Know • Alliteration • Analogy • Audience (as listeners) • Author’s purpose • Caption • Compare • Contrast • The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables, as in "on scrolls of silver snowy sentences" Alliteration Example: Betty Botter bought some butter,but, she said, the butter’s bitter

  4. Words to Know • Alliteration • Analogy • Audience (as listeners) • Author’s purpose • Caption • Compare • Contrast • the comparison of two pairs which have the same relationship Analogy Example: Happy is to sad as hot is to cold

  5. Words to Know • Alliteration • Analogy • Audience (as listeners) • Author’s purpose • Caption • Compare • Contrast • When the author thinks about who the reader is going to be, he is thinking about his _________. Audience When you know your audience, you can choose the right words, details, and tone. For example, you won’t write the same way to a newspaper editor as to your friends.

  6. Words to Know • Alliteration • Analogy • Audience (as listeners) • Author’s purpose • Caption • Compare • Contrast • An authors reason for writing Author’s purpose Example: authors often write to persuade, inform, entertain, or express feelings

  7. Words to Know • Alliteration • Analogy • Audience (as listeners) • Author’s purpose • Caption • Compare • Contrast • A title, short explanation, or description accompanying an illustration or a photograph Caption caption

  8. Words to Know • Alliteration • Analogy • Audience (as listeners) • Author’s purpose • Caption • Compare • Contrast • How two things are alike Compare compare and contrast means to tell how two or more things are alike and different.

  9. Words to Know • Alliteration • Analogy • Audience (as listeners) • Author’s purpose • Caption • Compare • Contrast • How two things are different Contrast compare and contrast means to tell how two or more things are alike and different.

  10. Words to Know • Double-negative • Drawing conclusions • Fable • Genre • Homonyms • Index • Making inferences (inferring) • the nonstandard usage of two negatives used in the same sentence so that they cancel each other and create a positive Double-negative I don’t want nothing. (I do not want nothing.) I couldn’t see nothing. (I could not see nothing.)

  11. Words to Know • Double-negative • Drawing conclusions • Fable • Genre • Homonyms • Index • Making inferences (inferring) • forming an opinion based on what you already know or on the facts and details in a text Drawing conclusion

  12. Words to Know • Double-negative • Drawing conclusions • Fable • Genre • Homonyms • Index • Making inferences (inferring) • A usually short narrative that often teaches a lesson and has animal characters that speak and act like humans. Fable

  13. Words to Know • Double-negative • Drawing conclusions • Fable • Genre • Homonyms • Index • Making inferences (inferring) • Different kinds of literature Genre Folk tales Myth Play Autobiography Etc.

  14. Words to Know • Double-negative • Drawing conclusions • Fable • Genre • Homonyms • Index • Making inferences (inferring) • words that sound alike but are spelled differently and have different meanings Homonym scent, sent, and cent

  15. Words to Know • Double-negative • Drawing conclusions • Fable • Genre • Homonyms • Index • Making inferences (inferring) • Something that serves to guide, point out, or otherwise facilitate reference • An alphabetized list of names, places, and subjects treated in a printed work, giving the page or pages where information is located Index

  16. Words to Know • Double-negative • Drawing conclusions • Fable • Genre • Homonyms • Index • Making inferences (inferring) • Sometimes readers must use: • CLUES • EXPERIENCE to make guesses as they read. This is called… Making Inference

  17. Words to Know Metaphor I am a rainbow. • Metaphor • Outline • Possessive nouns • Prediction • Proofread • Quotations/quotation marks • when you use two nouns and compare or contrast them to one another. Unlike simile, you don't use "like" or "as" in the comparison.

  18. Words to Know • Metaphor • Outline • Possessive nouns • Prediction • Proofread • Quotations/quotation marks • A person, place, thing or object that shows ownership. Possessive Noun The girl’s hat… The children’s play… My dog’s chew toy…

  19. Words to Know • Metaphor • Outline • Possessive nouns • Predict • Proofread • Quotations/quotation marks • The exact words someone or something says in a written work. • These are used in writing to mark exactly what the person or thing is saying. Quotation Quotation Marks

  20. Words to Know • Metaphor • Outline • Possessive nouns • Predict • Proofread • Quotations/quotation marks • When you preview the story title, illustrations and/or discuss who the characters might be and what might happen in the story. Predict

  21. Words to Know • Sentence fragment • Simile • Subject/verb agreement • Time order/transitional • words • Topic sentence • Verb tense • a sentence in the sense that it cannot stand by itself Sentence Fragment Working into the night as hard as she can to save the boat

  22. Words to Know • Sentence fragment • Simile • Subject/verb agreement • Time order/transitional • words • Topic sentence • Verb tense • Simile is when you compare two nouns (persons, places or things) that are unlike, with "like" or "as." Simile Playing the piano is like a bird soaring in the sky.

  23. Words to Know • Sentence fragment • Simile • Subject/verb agreement • Time order/transitional • words • Topic sentence • Verb tense • Writers use ________ to describe the order in which to do something or to tell readers exactly when events too place. Time Order / Transitional Words Words such as: first, then, next, finally, therefore, rather

  24. Words to Know • Sentence fragment • Simile • Subject/verb agreement • Time order/transitional • words • Topic sentence • Verb tense • A well-organized paragraph supports or develops a single controlling idea, which is expressed in a sentence called the _________ Topic Sentence

  25. Words to Know • Sentence fragment • Simile • Subject/verb agreement • Time order/transitional • words • Topic sentence • Verb tense • gives information about when an action took place Verb Tense studying- present Will study - future studied – past

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