Words to Know for Testing (Flash Card Words)

Words to use on the backs of your flashcards:

ADD:  The A in ARMS for Revsion

Analyze:  break it into parts, tell about the parts

Capital LETTERS: the  L in Smiles for Editing

Central idea: A sentence that states the main idea being presented.  It includes the topic and what the author thinks or wants to show about that topic

Cite: To quote, summarize, or paraphrase (a passage, book, or author) as evidence to back up an argument or statement,

Claim: The central idea in an argument.   It is a sentence that tells what the person arguing is trying to prove.

 Classify:  arrange (a group of people or things) in classes or categories according to shared qualities or characteristics.

Compare: Tell how two things are alike

Conclusion: a decision made about information you are given

Contrast: Tell how two things are different

Define: Explain the meaning of a word or idea

Describe: give specific and relevant details about something, create a picture in the reader’s mind of that thing or idea:  to tell about or write about; paint a picture with words

Determine: decide

EDIT: Correct errors in conventions such as capitalization, punctuation, spelling, indenting,  and using a word the wrong way

Evaluate: to judge and tell the good and the bad; or to decide the value or amount of

Excerpt: Part of a passage: a portion or section of a written work
Explain: teach me or show me, tell me the steps: to make clear or understandable 

INDENT paragraphs

Infer: To guess based on the information

MOVE: one of the words that the letters in ARMS stand for

Omit: to leave out

Paraphrase: putting information from a source into your own words

Punctuation MARKS: the M  in Smiles for Editing

REMOVE:  one of the words that the letters in ARMS stand for

Revise: to change or improve something for your writing. It means to add, remove, move around,  or substitute.

SENTENCES (complete): The S in SMILES for editing

 SPELLING:  The S in SMILES for editing 

SUBSTITUTE: one of the words that the letters in ARMS stand for

Summarize: give a brief statement of the main points of (something).

Trace: Explain something step by step