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5-A-Day Academic Language

5-A-Day Academic Language. Jan. 8-31-. Jan. 8 th. Literary texts: passages that are stories, dramas, or poems. Inference: to come to a reasonable conclusion based on evidence found in the text. Theme: its message or lesson.

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5-A-Day Academic Language

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  1. 5-A-Day Academic Language Jan. 8-31-

  2. Jan. 8th • Literary texts: passages that are stories, dramas, or poems. • Inference: to come to a reasonable conclusion based on evidence found in the text. • Theme: its message or lesson. • Central Idea(main idea): the most important point or idea that the author is making in a passage. • Objective summary: an overview of a passage including main points but not every detail and not opinions.

  3. Jan 9th 6. Plot: the specific order of a series of events that form a story. 7. characterization: the way an author develops a character over the course of a passage. 8. setting: where and when a story takes place. 9. resolution: the solution to the problem in the story. 10. Literal meaning: the actual meaning of a word. 11. Figurative meaning: the symbolic meaning of words or phrases.

  4. Academic Vocabulary Practice Crossword Puzzle Word Bank • Setting 10. resolution • Theme 11. objective • Figurative meaning summary • Characterization • Literary texts • Central idea • Plot • Literal meaning • Inference

  5. Jan 15th • Connotative meaning: beyond the explicit meaning of a word. • Soliloquy: a speech in a text or drama where the character tells the audience how he feels by talking to himself. • Sonnet: form of poetry that contains 14 lines and have a specific rhyme scheme. • Point of view: perspective from which a story is told. • genre: category of a text (fiction, nonfiction).

  6. Jan 16th 6. Historical account: factual description of situations, occasions and events that actually occurred in the past. 7. Informational texts: passages that explain or inform. 8. Fact and opinion: fact is a statement that can be proven and an opinion is a statement that cannot be proven, as it states belief or judgement. 9. redundancy: using a word or phrase that repeats something else.

  7. Academic Vocabulary Practice Write a paragraph or 5 separate sentences using 5 words. • Point of View • soliloquy • Historical account • Facts and Opinion • sonnet • Connotative meaning • redundancy • genre • Informational texts

  8. Jan 22nd • Author’s purpose: author’s intention for writing. • Author’s point of view: the opinion of the author. • Claim: main argument made by the author. • Counterclaim: reasonable argument that opposes or disagrees with another claim. • Bias: holding a strong belief or opinion may cause. • Evidence: proves the claim.

  9. Jan 23rd 6. organization: the way in which a passage is structured. Organizational structures: 7. Chronological order: a series of events in order as they happened. 8. Cause and effect: one thing causes another thing to happen. 9. Compare and contrast: comparing is analyzing two things and contrasting is analyzing differences. 10. Order of importance: organizes text by listing supporting details from most to least important. 11. Problem and solution: organized by identifying the problem and offering solutions.

  10. Jan 28th • 1. interactions: refers to how ideas influence individuals or events or how individuals influence ideas or events. • 2. Connotative meaning: meaning beyond the explicit meaning of a word (emotion). • 3. Denotative meaning: explicit meaning of a word (dictionary meaning). • 4. Technical meaning: meaning as it relates to a specific subject or process. • 5. tone: the attitude of the author about a subject or an audience.

  11. Jan 29th 7. sound: reasoning that makes sense and follows logic. 8. relevant: must be related to the topic. 9. topic: what a piece of writing is about. 10. formatting: how a piece of writing is organized, designed, and arranged. 11. multimedia: a variety of media. 12. transition: word, phrase or clause that links one idea to the next.

  12. Jan 30th Aca Voc. Practice Make flash cards with your vocabulary words.

  13. Feb 4th 1. Cohesion: the flow of sentences and paragraphs from one to another. 2. Precise language: specific and vivid words and phrases to make meaning clear. 3. Formal style: less personal; used to write an essay. 4. Audience: the people who will be reading your writing. 5. Context: words or phrases that surround another word to help explain its meaning. 6. Context clues: are the words or phrases that explain the word.

  14. Feb 5th 7. Writing process: drafting, revising, editing, proofreading. 8. introduction: the beginning of a piece of writing that provides the main idea. 9. Concluding statement: the end of a piece of writing that sums up your main points. 10. Research: gathering of information in order to learn more about a topic. 11. Source: a book, article, website, person or piece of media that contains information.

  15. Feb 6th and 7th Aca Voc. Practice • Make flash cards with your vocabulary words.

  16. Feb 11th 1. credibility: using facts and evidence from a reliable source. 2. paraphrase: use someone else’s ideas and express them as yours. 3. plagiarism: presenting the words, works, or ideas of someone else as though they are yours. 4. citation: the way the author tells the reader that information came from a different source.

  17. Feb 12 5. Argumentative texts: forms of writing where the writer makes a claim and supports the claim. 6. argument: main statement of an argumentative text. 7.relationships: refers to the ways in which ideas are connected. 8. root: the foundation of the word. 9. affix: letters that are added to a root word to change the meaning.

  18. Feb 19th 1. dictionary: a reference book that provides the precise meaning of words. 2. glossary: an alphabetical list of words and phrases and their meaning in a text. 3. Figure of speech: word or phrase that has a meaning beyond the literal meaning. 4. synonym: word or phrase that means exactly the same as another word.

  19. Feb 20th 5. Misplaced modifier: word, phrase, or clause that is improperly separated from what is modifies. 6. Dangling modifier: a phrase or clause that is not clearly related to what it appears to modify, more information is needed. 7. antonym: word or phrase that means the opposite as another word. 8. analogy: comparison between 2 things that helps to express the relationship between them.

  20. Feb 25th 1. grammar: set of rules for language. 2. usage: using the correct word when there is a choice. 3. phrase: group of words as a unit. 4. clause: group of words that contain a subject and a verb. 5. punctuation: to writing marks that help to separate and clarify ideas.

  21. Feb 26th 6. Coordinating adjectives: appear in sequence to modify the same noun. 7. Simple sentence: expresses a single thought and contains a subject and a verb. 8. Compound sentence: two independent clauses joined by a comma and a FANBOYS. 9. Complex sentence: independent clause and dependent clause joined by an AWUBIS word. 10. Compound/complex sentence: two independent clauses and at least one dependent clause.

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