Vocabulary Units 1–2
This frozen layer on the ground can kill plants if you plant too early.
What is "frost"?
This noun means “meaning” — you might look it up in a dictionary.
What is "definition"?
This noun means a neighborhood or group of people who share an identity.
What is "community"?
This is another word for “subject” and is usually a single word or short phrase.
What is the topic?
These words replace nouns so we don’t repeat them over and over.
What are "pronouns?"
This baby cat might be found in a shelter.
What is "kitten"?
This word means “a plan or way to do something.”
What is strategy?
This word means “beliefs, customs, and traditions of a group of people.”
What is "culture"?
This combines the topic and the writer’s claim into one sentence.
What is the main idea?
This type of quick reading finds the main idea of a text without reading every word.
What is "skimming?"
This adjective describes something definite and particular.
What is "specific"?
In karaoke, you read these words on the screen while you sing.
What are "lyrics"?
In sports, this is the thing you want to achieve — in soccer, you try to get one.
What is a "goal"?
These give specific information to explain the main idea, such as reasons, examples, or statistics.
What are "supporting details"?
If you run your eyes quickly to find a date in a text, you are using this skill.
What is "scanning?"
This organization in Portland lets you adopt from a shelter instead of buying from a pet store.
What is "Oregon Humane Society"?
This adjective means “one, individual” — the opposite of plural.
What is "singular"?
This type of chart uses horizontal or vertical bars to compare data.
What is a "bar graph"?
If you see the word “pollen” many times in a gardening article, this helps you identify the ____.
This type of diagram, often used in comparing and contrasting, has two overlapping circles.
What is a Venn diagram?
A pet store dog might come from this kind of mass-breeding facility.
What is a puppy mill?
In chess or backgammon, this kind of thinking is based on clear, correct reasoning rather than luck.
What is "logic"?
This verb means to think of a value that is too low.
What is "underestimate"?
Name three of the six common types of supporting details taught in Unit 3.
What are reasons, examples, facts, statistics, descriptions, definitions? (any three)
In Unit 7, this is the skill of explaining the meaning of numbers or visuals in a table or graph.
What is "interpreting data?"