Vocabulary
Text / Graphic Features
Stories
Plays
Miscellaneous
100
_________ are tasks that take time and effort to complete.
projects
100
Found at the beginning of a book, this tells us what kind of information is in the book.
table of contents
100
The two players who wanted to be goalkeeper in Soccer Shootout.
Berk and Ryan
100
This comes at the beginning of the play and lists the different roles available for actors.
cast of characters
100
These come at the beginning of a word and change its meaning.
prefixes
200
Someone who is __________ can imagine ideas and invent new things.
creative
200
This type of text lets the reader know that the word is a key term and can be found in the glossary.
bold text
200
This character was very afraid to leave his tree and venture into the unknown.
Scaredy Squirrel
200
Plays often have this, a person who helps tell the story to the audience.
narrator
200
Spell the word shown.
fault
300
If you __________ others, you tell a lie or try to make them believe something that is not true.
deceive
300
This page is found at the end of the book and gives definitions for key terms in the book.
glossary
300
These three animals help Gigi during his adventure.
dog, cat, mouse
300
Stories are divided up into _______ and _______.
acts and scenes
300
This obelisk stands in the nation's capital and honors one of our early presidents.
the Washington Monument
400
If someting is _____________, it is just what you expect, with no surprises.
predictable
400
This text appears under or near a picture and tells the reader more about that picture.
caption
400
Blaise and George's teachers assigned them this project in Dear Dragon.
being pen pals
400
A painted curtain or wall that shows the setting of a scene.
backdrop
400
The _______ is the the main message or lesson that an author wants you to learn from a story.
theme
500
_______ happens when two individuals closely work together and benefit from it.
symbiosis
500
This appears at the end of the book and gives page numbers to go to for more information about a specific topic.
index
500
Caroline Pickersgill and her mother made a flag for this place in The Flag Maker.
Fort McHenry
500
These are put around words to tell the actors that those words are stage directions.
parentheses
500
This Latin root means "to see".
vis