Nonfiction Terms

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Trace

Outline, list in steps, or follow the path.

Support

Back it up or prove it with details.

Compare

Tell all the ways they are the same.

Contrast

Tell all the ways they are different

Predict

What will happen next?

summarize

Tell the main idea, tell the beginning, middle, and end.

explaine

Teach me or show me, tell me the steps.

evaluate

Judge it, tell the good and bad.

Formulate

Create, put together.

Infer

Read between he lines, what is the hidden meaning?

describe

Tell about it, paint a picture with words

Analyze

Break it into parts tell about the parts.

Position (or viewpoint)

the central idea the author supports in their argument

Example: school should start later

Opposing viewpoint

a position that is the opposite of another position

Claim

a statement that supports a position Example: If school