Vocabulary
Reading Strategies/ Comprehension Focus
Workshop 4: Recalling the facts
Vocabulary
Writing
100
This is another word for harmful: Smoking is _______, or harmful, to people's health.
What is detrimental
100
When someone restates the topic and important details of an article they are doing this.
What is summarizing?
100
This is what caused Miguel Vasquez to become outraged and write a letter to his cable company.
What was cancelling MTV?
100
This a rule or limit on something people can do
What is a restriction?
100
This type of sentence is NOT a complete thought and it should be avoided in formal writing.
What is an incomplete sentence/ fragment?
200
This word starts with an "a" and means to bother, annoy, or upset someone.
What is to agitate?
200
When you explain the most important and overall idea in a text, you are stating this.
What is the main idea?
200
In "MTV Unplugged", Miguel believes that if someone is offended by a show or channel, they should do this.
What is not watch or change the channel?
200
You do this when you remove part of a book or song thought to be harmful.
What is censor?
200
This sentence keeps on going when it should have some sort of punctuation mark to make it correct.
What is a run-on sentence?
300
This word starts with an "o" and means to strongly disagree with something or someone
What is to oppose?
300
This is the first step someone should probably take when they are trying to summarize a text
What is find the topic/ main idea?
300
At first, the superintendent of Mishawaka, Indiana supported this action to be taken in the area's schools.
What is the ban on music?
300
You do this when you contribute to the growth of something
What is promote?
300
Incomplete sentences are usually missing one of these.
What is a subject or verb?
400
This is another word for someone who is like a judge. They give their opinions on whether things are good or bad
What is a critic?
400
This is what someone has when they are able to read quickly and clearly aloud. Having this ability can help a reader when they need to read silently
What is reading fluency?
400
In the magazine article, "The Day the Music Died", about 250 help one of these to oppose the ban on music in the high school.
What is a protest?
400
This is severe measures to restrict or discourage undesirable or illegal people or behavior.
What is crackdown?
400
This writing type carefully examines a text or a literary element such as plot or them.
What is a literary analysis?
500
This word means to withdraw from commercial or social relations with (a country, organization, or person) as a punishment or protest. It also means, a ban that forbids relations with certain groups, cooperation with a policy, or the handling of goods.
What is a boycott?
500
This is what a someone does when he/she combines information from multiple sources to formulate new idea. It is also one of the critical reading tasks that we complete in the rBook.
What is synthesize?
500
This is what the music companies started doing after the warning label didn't have any effect
What is self-censorship/ editing albums?
500
This is one of the critical reading tasks in our rBook. It is something you do when examine something very closely and look at all the details.
What is analyze?
500
When you are coming up with ideas before you actually start writing, some might say you are doing this. Sometimes graphic organizers help a writer do this.
What is brainstorm?
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