Vocabulary & Word Recognition
Vocabulary in Context
Types of Text
Author's Purpose
Responding to Text
100
main part of a word
What is a root?
100
hints to unknown words in text
What is a context clue?
100
is a short piece of writing with made up characters and events and has a beginning, middle, and end
What is a story?
100
the author's basic message and what the passage is mostly about
What is the main idea?
100
a broad statement or opinion that includes many or all people and things
What is a generalization?
200
a group of letters that comes before the root and changes the meaning of the word
What is a prefix?
200
a word that has more than one meaning
What is a multiple meaning word?
200
is a piece of writing set in groups of lines called stanzas and the lines could be parts of sentences or rhymes
What is a poem?
200
is the main idea of a paragraph
What is the topic sentence?
200
is an educated guess based on information found in the reading and your own background knowledge
What is an inference?
300
a group of letters added to the end of the root and changes the meaning of the word
What is a suffix?
300
a group of words that can't be taken literally and are used to make reading more interesting
What is an idiom?
300
a piece of writing that has to be acted out
What is a play?
300
a piece of information that relates to or explains the main idea
What is a supporting detail?
300
is an opinion you form after reading
What is a conclusion?
400
a word with the same or similar meaning as another word
What is a synonym?
400
words that have the same spelling but mean different things and are often pronounced differently.
What is a homonym?
400
a type of writing that is not true
What is fiction?
400
is the message about life that the author is trying to get across
What is the theme?
400
is an unfair preference for or against something or someone
What is a bias?
500
a word that has the opposite meaning of a word
What is an antonym?
500
words that sound the same but are spelled differently and mean different things
What is a homophone?
500
a type of writing that is true
What is nonfiction?
500
is the reason the author writes
What is author's purpose?
500
is information that is spread to influence the way people think, often to gain support for a cause
What is propaganda?
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