Academic Vocabulary  

1. Summary - a short retelling of a text that includes the main idea and key details of a

text, or the important events and details of a text

2. Summarize - to briefly retell in your own words the most important ideas, events and details of the text
3. Event - something that happens in a story or in the natural world
4. Detail - facts, examples, or other pieces of information in a text
5. Problem - a challenge that the main character or characters face
6. Solution - the answer to a problem; the way the main character resolve the conflict at the center of the story

Academic Vocabulary Unit 1 

1. Theme - an important message or lesson that an author wants to share about people or life
2. Central Message - an important message about people or life that the author of the story wants to share.
3. Character - a person, animal, or made up creature in a story
4. Challenge - a problem or difficulty that needs to be solved
5. Key Detail - an important fact, example, or other piece of information in a text that helps explain the main idea
6. Determine - to find out or figure out something
7. Support - to help explain or provide evidence of the main idea
8. Stanza - several lines of a poem that are grouped together to form one part of the poem

Academic vocabulary Unit 1 

1. Inference - a conclusion, or idea you have about a text, based on detail in the text and your own background knowledge.
2. Text Evidence - a detail, fact, or example in a piece of writing that can be used to support an idea
3. Direct Quotation - the exact words that an author spoke or a speaker read

Academic Vocabulary Unit 1 Lesson 4

1. Drama - a story that is performed on a stage by actors
2. Scene - a part of a play in which all the action takes place in the same setting; one or more senses make up each part of the play
3. Dialog - the words that characters say in a story or a play
4. Stage directions - instructions in a play that tell what actors should do, how actors should speak, and what should appear or be hidden on stage

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