Reading skills
Vocabulary
Spelling
Text Features
Text Information
100

What is main idea?

The most important information from a text. 

100

What is segregation? 

Being separated, usually by the color of your skin. 

100

what is a word that has the same sound as the ee in feet? 

answers vary...

100

What is the resource called located at that back of a book/text that gives you definitions or meanings to a word? 

The Glossary 

100

Who was Dred Scott? 

A slave who fought for his freedom. 

200

What is a key detail?

A piece of information that supports the main idea, or an important piece of information. 

200

What does it mean to evolve? 

It means to change.

200

Finish this sentence. The _______ is a document that is the foundation of the United States Government. 

Constitution 

200

What is a caption?

Text under an image or chart. 

200

True or False: Lyndon Johnson believes that it is a Southern problem. 

False; "There is not Negro problem. There is n southern problem. There is no northern problem. There is only an American Problem"

300

Name one type of figurative language. 

Answers vary. Examples: simile, metaphor, hyperbole, etc. 

300

What does succession mean? 

the action or process of inheriting a title, or one after another. 

300

What is a word that has the same sound as ir in girl? 

Answers vary....

300

What does it mean if something is ordered chronologically? 

In order by date/time. 

300

Who was the first African American justice of the Supreme Court?

Thurgood Marshall

400

What does it mean to summarize?

To take the important pieces of a text and shorten it. 

400

What does "regulate" mean?

To control something or keep it regular

400

What is the correct spelling?

Liburty

Libirty

Liberty

Librty

Liberty

400

What is a footnote?

A note at the bottom of the text to give more information for understanding. 

400

What is the overall theme of all the stories we read in this unit? 

The government or laws evolving, or how far our country has come through segregation and racism. 

500

What does it mean to infer?

To make a guess with what you know and the information you are given. 

500

What does repealed mean? 

"The law passed, but then it was repealed."

To revoke or take away. 

500

What does a long vowel say? Give one example. 

It says its name. 

500

What is the bold font that comes under a title to mark different sections called? 

A subtitle.

500

Who used the Dred Scott case to help issue the Emancipation Proclamation to free the enslaved people? 

Abraham Lincoln!!
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