Reading Vocabulary 1
The part of a story that tells time and place.
Setting
The speaker in a story.
Narrator
12 X 6=
72
9 X 7 =
63
What is your teacher's favorite color?
Teacher will provide answer
A word that means opposite.
Antonym
Simile
8,056 - 5,273 =
2,783
7,448 + 936 =
8,384
What is your teacher's favorite food?
Teacher will provide answer
Things in the story that helps the reader understand the passage better.
Examples: Subheadings, Illustrations, Captions, Maps, Graphs, Timelines, etc.
Text Features
To condense a story by writing only about the most important events.
Summarize
A garden is 4 feet wide and 6 feet long. What is the area of the garden?
24 square feet
A football field is 150 yards long and 50 yards wide. What is the perimeter of the field?
400 yards
What is the one thing your teacher says the most?
Teacher will provide answer
Why the selection was written- to persuade, to inform, or to entertain.
Author's Purpose
The problem in a story.
Compare the fractions using <, >, =.
3 halves ____ 2 thirds
3 halves > 2 thirds
Order the fractions from least to greatest.
9 tenths, 4 tenths, 11 tenths, 2 tenths
2 tenths, 4 tenths, 9 tenths, 11 tenths
What is your teacher's favorite subject to teach?
Teacher will provide answer
Words that tell what a character is like, for example brave, honest, kind.
Character Traits
How the selection was written (built).
Examples: Cause and Effect, Chronological, Compare and Contrast, etc.
Text Structure.
A quadrilateral with all right angles and equal length sides. What are all the names this shape could be?
Square, Trapezoid
Sam has 4 packs of Pokémon cards; each pack has 12 cards. He gives 15 cards to his little brother; how many cards does Sam have now?
33 cards
If your teacher could go anywhere in the world for vacation, where would it be?
Teacher will provide answer.