Reading Skills
This word means: To examine something carefully and think about all of its parts.
✅ Analyze
Good readers analyze characters, evidence, and ideas—not just summarize them.
This vocabulary word means: An idea that can be tested through investigation.
✅ Hypothesis
Scientists create hypotheses before experiments.
This word means: to find how two or more things are alike.
✅ compare
Readers compare characters, settings, themes, or ideas by identifying similarities.
This word means: a small group of words that work together in a sentence.
✅ Phrase
A phrase is not a complete sentence but helps build meaning.
This word means: a journey with a purpose, often to discover something new.
✅ Expedition
Explorers often go on expeditions to study places, animals, or cultures.
This vocabulary word means: to show or make something known.
✅ Reveal
Authors reveal information slowly to keep readers interested.
You use this skill when you decide something after reading evidence.
✅ Determine
Authors don't always tell us directly. We determine using clues.
What word means
A statement that something is true?
✅ Claim
Claims should always be supported with evidence.
This word means: to find how two or more things are different.
✅ Contrast
Signal words like however, unlike, and on the other hand often introduce contrasts.
This vocabulary word means: a short part taken from a larger text.
✅ Excerpt
Authors often provide excerpts to give readers a preview of a longer work.
This vocabulary word means: the act of investigating or traveling to discover new places or information.
✅ Exploration
Exploration can happen in science, geography, history, and even through reading.
This vocabulary word means: to stand for or show something else.
✅ Represent
A flag can represent a country.
This word means: To judge the value or quality of something.
✅ Evaluate
Evaluate means using evidence before making a judgment.
This word means: Facts or information collected for study.
✅ Data
Scientists collect data before making conclusions.
Which vocabulary word means: to be different or not the same?
✅ Differ
Students often confuse differ with contrast. Differ simply means "to be different."
Which vocabulary word means: a part of a story or text?
✅ Passage
State assessments frequently ask students to analyze a reading passage.
Which vocabulary word means: to change so something fits a new environment or situation?
✅ Adapt
Plants, animals, and people adapt to survive or succeed.
Which word means: to have an effect on someone or something?
✅ Influence
Characters often influence each other's decisions.
This word means:
The reason an author wrote something.
✅ Purpose
Ask:
"Why did the author write this?"
What vocabulary word means: To place things into groups based on similarities?
✅ Classify
Readers classify information to organize ideas.
This vocabulary word means: almost the same, but not exactly alike.
✅ Similar
Encourage students to explain how two things are similar using evidence.
This word means: the feeling or emotion a word suggests beyond its dictionary definition.
✅ Connotation
Words with similar meanings can have very different connotations (for example, slim vs. skinny).
This word means: the physical features of land, such as mountains, valleys, or deserts.
✅ Terrain
Terrain can affect where people travel, build, or explore.
This vocabulary word means: a connection between people or things
✅ Relationship
Think about relationships between characters, events, or ideas in a text.
What vocabulary word means
Where information comes from?
✅ Source
Reliable sources make strong arguments.
This word means: The way something is built or organized.
✅ Structure
Stories, essays, and buildings all have structure.
This word means: to put objects or ideas into groups based on shared characteristics.
✅ Classify
Scientists classify living things, and readers classify information to organize ideas.
This vocabulary word means: a point of view or the way someone sees a situation.
✅ Perspective
Changing a character's perspective can completely change how a story is understood.
What vocabulary word means: an important task or goal?
✅ Mission
Every astronaut has a mission to complete
This vocabulary word means: to find a solution to a problem.
✅ Resolve
Stories often end when the main conflict is resolved.