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Praxis (5004) - Elem. Ed: Social Studies flashcards
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The combination of ideas values feelings beliefs that influences the way a writer looks at the topic

  • main idea
  • authors perspective
  • implicit
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Authors perspective

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A specific piece of information that supports a claim –fact quote example statistics personal experience

  • evidence
  • dialect
  • figurative language
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Evidence

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Most important idea about a topic that a writer conveys can be from entire work or paragraph usually supported by details

  • predict
  • chronological order
  • main idea
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Main idea

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The process of establishing specific reasons the reading of the text

  • summarize
  • setting a purpose
  • argument
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Setting a purpose

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Briefly tell the main ideas of a piece of writing in ones own word

  • argument
  • setting a purpose
  • summarize
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Summarize

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Element of the text (bold face headings caption) that organize and call attention to important details

  • prior knowledge
  • text feature
  • cause and effect
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Text feature

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Knowledge a reader already possesses about a topic

  • Prior knowledge
  • explicit
  • dialect
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Prior knowledge

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When one event brings about another. Can also be a way of organizing a piece of writing helps show relationships

  • Inference
  • cause and effect
  • Setting a purpose
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Cause and effect

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A logical guess that is made based on facts and one’s own knowledge.

  • Authors purpose
  • evidence
  • inference
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Inference

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Stated clearly and in detail leaving no room for confusion or doubt

  • explicit
  • implicit
  • dialect
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Explicit

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Not stated directly but understood and what is expressed

  • implicit
  • explicit
  • cause effect
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Implicit

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A reading strategy that involves using text clues to make a reasonable guess about what will happen next in the story

  • monitor
  • chronological order
  • predict
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Predict

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Checking your comprehension as you read and modifying strategies to meet your needs

  • predict
  • explicit
  • monitor
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Monitor

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Arrangement of events by their order used in fictional narrative or biographies

  • compare contrast
  • chronological order
  • generalization
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Chronological order

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Frying the similarities and differences of two or more subjects. Can also be a way to organize it writing

  • chronological order
  • predict
  • compare contrast
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Compare contrast

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When you encounter unfamiliar words you can use these to understand it. Words phrases surrounding the word that provide hints to its meaning

  • fact opinion
  • conclusion
  • context clues
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Context clues

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Statement that can be proved or verified in a statement that cannot be proved because it expresses a persons beliefs feelings

  • characterization
  • true false
  • facts opinion
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Fact opinion

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State of belief based on evidence experience and reasoning. Logically follows from the facts statements on which it is based

characterization
context clues
conclusion

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Conclusion

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The way a writer creates or develop characters

Bias
anecdotal
characterization

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Characterization

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Used to search through text for a particular fat piece of information. Sweep your eyes across the page by

Bias
evaluate
scanning

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Scanning

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The side of an issue the author favors. Words with an extremely positive or negative connotation are a symbol

evaluate
persuasion
Bias

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Bias

22
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To examine something carefully and to judge its value and worth

evaluate
generalization
argument

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Evaluate

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Speaking or writing that expresses a position on a problem. Supports it with reasons and evidence. Often takes into other’s accounts others points of view

Claim
Argument
Persuasion

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Argument

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In an argument this is the writers position on an issue or problem. May have more than one

generalization
persuasion
claim

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Claim

25
Q

Art of swaying others feelings beliefs or actions. Appeals to both the mind and emotions of readers

persuasion
generalization
dialect

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Persuasion

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Q

Brad statement about a class or category of people or ideas. This is based on the belief about some ideas

arguments
scanning
generalization

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Generalization

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Q

When words are used in an imaginative way to express ideas that are not literally true. Used for compassion

predict
figurative language
Monitor

A

Figurative language

28
Q

Form of language that is spoken in a particular place or buy a particular group of people.

Dialect
predict
Inference

A

Dialect

29
Q

Writing meant to express thoughts or feelings to inform or explain to persuade or to entertain

  • Authors perspective
  • Evidence
  • Authors purpose
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Authors purpose

30
Q

The ideas or feelings associated with the word as opposed to a dictionary definition
Denotation
Connotation
Dialect

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Connotation

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The dictionary definition of a word
Covey
Relevant
Denotation

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Denotation

32
Q

Restating of information in one’s own words
Support
Analyze
Paraphrase

A

Paraphrase

33
Q

Any information that helps prove a claim
Support
Context clues
Conclusion

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Support

34
Q

To make known or express
Relevant
Influence
Convey

A

Convey

35
Q

Having a logical connection with something else
Paraphrase
Relevant
Summarize

A

Relevant

36
Q

Two separate words into parts and then examine
Distinctive
Significant
Analyze

A

Analyze

37
Q

Unique clearly different
Climax
Resolution
Distinctive

A

Distinctive

38
Q

Important meaningful
Significant
Clarify
Connotation

A

Significant

39
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A strategy that helps readers understand make clear what they are reading usually does a really reading reading aloud or discussion
Significant
Analyze
Clarify

A

Clarify

40
Q

Point of greatest interest of the story usually occurs towards the end, conflict
Climax
Resolution
Structure

A

Climax

41
Q

End conflict
completely resolved
outcome clear

Climax
Dialogue
Resolution

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Resolution

42
Q

Conversation between two characters

Evidence
Dialogue
Inference

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Dialogue

43
Q

First stage of the story plot provides back info introduces setting characters and conflict.
Explicit
Exposition
Evaluate

A

Exposition

44
Q

Struggle of opposing forces, problems
predict
idiom
conflict

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Conflict

45
Q

Relating to the manner of organization
structure
analyze
paraphrase

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Structure

46
Q

Relating to the five senses
influence
stereotyping
sensory

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Sensory

47
Q

Ability or power to affect thought behavior or development influence
distinctive
significant

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Influence

48
Q

Dangerous type of overgeneralization. Can lead to unfairjudgments of people based on an ethnic background race or religion
idiom
clarify
stereotype

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Stereotyping

49
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Expression that has a meaning different from the meaning of individual words
Inference
Idiom
Predict

A

Idiom

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