Parts of Speech
Signal Words
Prefixes & Suffixes
Text Features
Animals
100

Words that name people, places, or things

What is a noun?

100

Explains when an event took place (ex. before, now, later)

What is time?

100

A syllable placed in front of a root word

What is prefix?

100

Show important words in the reading

What is bold print words?

100

An animal that gives birth, has hair, feeds milk from it's own body to it's young, and is warm-blooded

What is a mammal?

200

Words that show action

What is a verb?\]

200

Explain the order in which events happen (ex. first, next, last)

What is sequence?

200

To prepare and heat food before (cook)

What is precook?

200
Gives the definition of unknown words

What is a glossary?

200

Active during the night

What is nocturnal?

300

Words that describe nouns

What is an adjective?

300
How the author organize information in a text

What is text structure?

300
To label something again (name)

What is rename?

300
Photos visually show you what the text is about and captions describe the photo

What is photo and captions?

300

A cold-blooded animal with tough, scaly skin that uses it's surrounding to control it's body temperature

What is reptile?

400

Words that join the predicate to the subject it describes

What is a linking verb?

400

Explains why things happen (ex. because, then, so)

What is cause and effect?

400

The action has already happened

What is -ed?

400

Shows specific areas that are talked about in the text

What is a map?

400

An animal without a backbone

What is an invertebrate?

500

Names of people, places, and things that can be detected using a person's five senses

What is a concrete noun?

500

Show the difference and similarities between two or more things

What is comparison?

500
Present tense; ongoing action that is still happening

What is -ing?

500

Gives the reader an overview of what the texts are in this Reader and where to find each text

What is table of contents?

500

An animal that mainly eats meat

What is a carnivore?