Vocab Victory
These clues help you figure out a tricky word by looking at the sentences around it.
What are context clues?
This is where and when a story takes place.
What is the setting?
Using the image above, this is the most important point the author is making about a topic.
What is the main idea?
This text feature is found at the very top of a section and tells you what that section is about.
What is a heading?
If an author writes a story to make you laugh, their purpose is this.
What is to entertain?
If you add this prefix to the word "write," it means to write something again.
What is re-?
The "big message" or lesson the author wants you to learn, like "always be kind."
What is the theme?
These are small pieces of information that prove or support the main idea.
What are supporting details?
These are the small words under a picture that explain what is happening in the photo.
What is a caption?
If an author gives you facts about the life of a honeybee, their purpose is this.
What is to inform?
A word that means the opposite of another word.
What is an antonym?
Using the image above, "brave" or "funny" would be examples of this kind of trait.
What is an inside/character trait?
This text structure explains why something happened and what happened as a result.
What is cause and effect?
Found at the back of the book, this lists important words and their definitions.
What is a glossary?
If an author tries to get you to buy a certain brand of cereal, their purpose is this.
What is to persuade?
This suffix is added to the end of a word to mean "full of," like in the word "joyful."
What is -ful?
This is the problem that the characters are trying to solve in a story.
What is the conflict?
A statement that can be proven true with evidence.
What is a fact?
This is a drawing that shows the parts of something using labels.
What is a diagram?
This is how a character feels about something that is happening in the story.
What is perspective or point of view?
These are words that sound the same but have different meanings and spellings, like "hear" and "here."
What are homophones?
If the narrator uses words like "I," "me," and "my," the story is told in this point of view.
What is first person?
This is the order in which events happen in a text.
What is sequence?
This list at the front of a book shows the chapters and the page numbers where they start.
What is the table of contents?
When you look for how two stories are the same and how they are different, you are doing this.
What is comparing and contrasting?