Radio - Vocabulary
Radio
Types of Text Structure
100

Broadcasting

What is sending out signals or programs to be received by radios ?

100

The Golden Age of Radio suggests about the 1920's.


What is a period of great popularity and importance for radio?



100

The text structure that Radio is written in.

What is time line or chronological?

200

Electromagnetic Waves

What is a kind of energy that can travel through the air and includes things like light, radio waves, and X-rays?

200

This is how the paragraph discussing Fessenden's contribution to radio technology fits into the overall structure of the text.

What is... highlights a key advancement in radio technology, transitioning from basic signaling to voice and music transmission?

200

This is text structure identifies a problem and provides a solution.

What is Problem and Solution?

300

Morse Code 

What is a way to send messages using dots and dashes? 

300

This best summarizes the development of radio technology, as described in the passage.

What is radio evolved from the study of electromagnetic waves to a widely used form of communication and entertainment?

300

This is type of text structure explains what something is like.

What is description or descriptive?

400

Inventor  

What is a person who creates something new ?

400

The paragraph about the "Golden Age of Radio" contributes to the overall text.

What is it shows how radio became a central part of daily life and entertainment?

400

This type of text structure explains why something happens and what resulted.

What is Cause and Effect?

500

Transmission

What is the process of sending a signal or message from one place to another? 

500

A restatement of the following question: How does the introduction paragraph contribute to the overall structure and understanding of the text?.

What is... The introduction paragraph contributes to the text by explaining that the creation of the radio was a long process involving many people?

500

This type of text structure highlights similarities and differences between two or more subjects.

What is Compare and Contrast?