SYLLABLE TYPES
This syllable type has a vowel "closed in" by a consonant, making a short vowel sound
What is a closed syllable?
A word part added to the beginning of a word to change its meaning
What is a prefix?
Reading groups of words accurately and smoothly, like a storyteller or presenter
What is fluency (reading in meaningful phrases)?
A category or type of text (like fiction or nonfiction)
What is genre?
The first thing readers should figure out before reading nonfiction
What is the topic?
This syllable type ends in a silent "e" that makes the vowel say its long sound
What is a vowel-consonant-e syllable?
A word part added to the end of a word to change its meaning
What is a suffix?
This punctuation mark signals a brief pause within a sentence
What is a comma?
The usual weather a place has over a long period of time
What is climate?
The big, most important point the author wants you to understand
What is the main idea?
The word "inflate" splits into these two syllable types, in order
What is closed, then vowel-consonant-e?
This is the word part left over once you remove all prefixes and suffixes
What is a base word (or root)?
This punctuation mark signals the end of a sentence and a longer pause
What is a period?
The author's central argument or message about the topic
What is the main idea?
True or False: Nonfiction readers should just read the words as fast as possible
What is False?
The subject or "what it's about" in a text
A multisyllabic word
In the word "unhappy," this is the prefix
What is "un-"?
True or False: If you don't know a big word while reading, you should just skip it
What is False — break it into syllables and sound it out
The author's viewpoint or attitude toward the topic
What is perspective?
Farmers in the article plant many different kinds of these instead of just one
What is crops?
In "malnourished," this word part at the beginning means "bad, wrong, or poorly"
What is the prefix "mal-"?
In the word "recognizing," this is the suffix
In the word "recognizing," this is the suffix
A large, powerful storm system with strong rotating winds around a low-pressure center
What is a cyclone?
Someone who cleverly reworks a system — in this article, farmers who creatively rework how they farm
What is a hacker?
The article "Meet the Climate Hackers of Malawi" is about farmers doing this
What is adapting to climate change?