Middle School English Language Arts Instructional Guide

Essential Vocabulary

Morphemes/Roots

● Argument ● Infuence ● Supporting Evidence ● Credible Sources ● Claim ● Counterclaim/Opposing Claims ● Introduction

● Conclusion ● Thesis

● phon/phone sco/scope and micro/macro ● graph/gram, photo and tele/meter ● path/psych and pan, zoo/zo ● chron and phobia ● Review all roots and Roots Quiz ● Prefxes intro and re-, un

● Topic sentence ● Transition Phrase ● Credible Sources

● Connotation ● Denotation ● Figurative ● Literal

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