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PRAI
Vocabulary
Prefixes / Suffixes
Non-Fiction Text Features
Comprehension Skills
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The first step in PRAI
What is preview the passage and answer choices.
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hot / blazing or scared/frightened
What are synonyms?
100
A word part added to the beginning of a root word to change the word's meaning.
What is a prefix?
100
This feature tells you the name of the passage and also helps the reader know what the passage will be about.
What is the title?
100
This what a paragraph or passage is mostly/mainly about.
What is the main idea?
200
The second step of PRAI
What is read the passage and answer choices, then re-read the passage a second time.
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rude - kind or inside - outside
What are antonyms?
200
A word part added to the end of a base word to change the word's meaning.
What is a suffix?
200
This text feature breaks a passage into smaller sections and also helps the reader know what each section is mainly about.
What are headings or subtitles?
200
These are words before or after an unknown word that help the reader understand it.
What are context clues?
300
The third step in PRAI.
What is answer each question providing text evidence to support your thinking.
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two, too, to
What are homophones?
300
The meaning of the prefix in this word: disagreement
What is opposite of or not?
300
This text feature helps the reader understand a photograph or picture included in the passage.
What is the caption?
300
The order in which events take place in a passage.
What is the sequence of events?
400
The fourth step in PRAI.
What is inspect your answer document. Be sure all questions are answered only one time and that the bubbles are dark and neat.
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Words like bow "I have a bow in my hair." and bow, "Take a bow at the end of your performance."
What are homographs?
400
The meaning of the suffix in this word "trainer"
What is one who?
400
This text feature helps the reader know where the events in the passage are taking place.
What is a map?
400
When one event makes another event happen. Sometimes called the reason and result.
What is cause and effect?
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This is what you do when you have finished the test.
What is check your answer document against your test booklet to make sure the answers match.
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The way you determine an unknown word or multiple meaning word's definition.
What is use context clues?
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A common prefix that means before.
What is pre?
500
This text feature helps the reader know a word is important.
What is bold print, color print, italics or underlined?
500
Somebody Wanted But So is one way to find this, another way is to think about the important events of the beginning, middle and end of the passage.
What is a summary?