Academic Vocabulary
Comprehension Skills
Vocabulary
Reading Strategies
Phonics
100
Different types of books or texts.
What is genre?
100
A text that is organized from first to last/
What is sequence?
100
a smell
What is aroma?
100
making a picture or movie in your head as you read
What is visualization?
100
dis, in, im, non, un
Prefixes that mean "not"
200
A word part that comes at the beginning or end of a word.
What is a prefix and suffix?
200
A text that tells you how something looks, what it does, how it does it, what it is used for etc.
What is describe?
200
Many
What is numerous?
200
What you do when you don't understand what you have read.
What is reread?
200
ing, ed, s, tion, ual
What are examples of prefixes?
300
An author's technique which gives a non-human object human characteristics.
What is personification?
300
A text that tells what happened and why it happened.
What is cause and effect?
300
Ready for use
What is available?
300
When you stop every so often while reading and tell what has happened in order.
What is retelling?
300
Chunking
What does a reader do to separate parts of a word so he/she can read it?
400
Create a picture with words.
What is portrayed?
400
Making a decision based on what you know and clues in the text.
What is making an inference?
400
to follow the rules
What is a comply?
400
A chart that is drawn to keep track of your thoughts.
What is a graphic organizer?
400
A syllable that ends with a long vowel sound.
What is an open syllable?
500
It is real. It actually happened. It is true.
What is authentic?
500
An article that describes what is alike and different about a topic or people.
What is compare and contrast?
500
hardworking
What is an industrious?
500
Stop reading to write down what is confusing to ask about it later.
What is Stop and Jot?
500
A syllable that ends with a consonant.
What is a closed syllable?
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