Vocabulary
The part of a word that is found at the beginning of a word to create a new word
What is prefix?
Using what you know and what you are reading to determine what is going to happen.
What is predicting?
The words under a picture.
What is caption?
Do this before you answer the questions.
What is read the passage?
Using what you know about something to figure out what is going on
What is making an inference?
Using the words around an unknown word to determine the meaning of a word
What are context clues?
The order of events in a story
What is sequencing?
Important words in the text that stand out.
What are bold print or highlighted words?
Do this to show important words in the question.
What is box it?
Relating to the reading selection
What is making a connection?
Another word for the base word
What is a root word?
These change within a character depending on what is happening (external factors).
What are character feelings?
The words at the beginning of a section in an expository text.
What is a heading?
Do this when you find the answer in the passage?
What is underline evidence and number evidence?
The reason an author writes a selection.
What is author's purpose?
Words that sound the same, but have different meanings and spellings
What is a homophone?
Something that happens because of something else.
What is effect?
Pictures that have labeled parts.
What are diagrams?
This is what you do when the entire paragraph is the evidence in a passage.
What is circle it?
Telling how things are alike and different.
What is compare and contrast?
The word that you look for in a dictionary
What is an entry word?
A sentence from the beginning, middle, and end to wrap up the selection.
What is a summary?
Drawings that go with the text
What are illustrations?
The 5 words or less that you write in the margins to help you remember what you have read.
What are tracks?
Who is telling the story?
What is point of view?