Vocabulary in Context
What clue in a sentence helps you figure out the meaning of an unknown word?
What are context clues
What is the central idea?
What the text is mostly about
What should you use to prove your answer?
Evidence from the text
What is a simile?
Comparison using like or as
Inform, persuade, entertain
What are the three main author’s purposes?
What does the prefix re‑ most often mean?
Again
What detail best supports the central idea?
A detail that directly explains the central idea
What phrase means “using proof from the text”?
Text evidence
What is a metaphor?
A comparison without like or as
To convince the reader
to persuade
If an author says a character “stomped angrily,” what does stomped most likely mean?
Walked with force/anger
What does it mean to summarize a text?
Telling the most important parts in your own words
Which is better: “I think…” or “The text says…”?
The text says...
“The classroom was a zoo.” What does this mean?
The classroom was loud or wild
The person telling the story
the narrator
Which strategy helps you figure out a word’s meaning: context clues, guessing, or skipping the word?
Context clues
What text feature helps you understand information quickly in nonfiction?
Headings/captions/diagrams
What is a quotation?
Exact words from the text
Giving human traits to non‑human things
What is personification?
Who is telling the story?
point of view
What Greek or Latin root means “write”?
graph
What is the difference between central theme and a central idea?
Theme = lesson/message;
Central idea = topic + details
Why is text evidence important?
It proves your answer is correct
Why do authors use figurative language?
to help readers visualize and understand better
It changes how events are described
How can point of view affect the story?