Text Features
This text feature is on the cover of a book.
What is the title?
This context clue type describes the meaning of a word. And, sometimes you use a dictionary for this.
What is a definition?
For example: The cottage is a small house.
The first Tier of Vocabulary is ____________ __________________.
What is Everyday Language or Words?
This word part is at the beginning of a word.
What is a prefix?
Allergic to girls, school, and other scary things
Who is Alvin Ho?
This text feature describes chapter headings and page numbers.
What is the table of contents?
This context clue type uses similar words to describe the meaning of an unknown word.
What is a synonym?
For example, Alvin is bigger than Anibelly and smaller than Calvin. So, Alvin is taller than Anibelly and shorter than Calvin.
The second Tier of Vocabulary is _______________ _________________.
What is Academic Language or Vocabulary?
The base of the word that holds the basic meaning of the word.
What is a root word?
The nickname of Alvin's desk buddy.
Who is Flea?
This text feature is found at the back of some books and defines words in the book.
For example, Alvin Ho has this in the back of the book.
This context clue type describes the opposite meaning of an unknown word.
What is an antonym?
For example, the class president was always ambitious, unlike her lazy younger sister.
The third Tier of Vocabulary is _______________ _________________.
What is Technical Language or Vocabulary?
The ending part of a word.
What is a suffix?
Alvin creates a PDK and takes it with him to help him survive his fears of school. PDK stands for ________.
What is a Personal Disaster Kit?
This text feature shows what the words or content is all about.
For example, Survival Ocean showed hypothermia by this ______________ of a man with half of his fingers gone.
What are illustrations or pictures?
This context clue type shows an unknown word to be similar or different than another word.
What is compare?
For example, predators are hunters that hunt, catch, and eat other animals.
The best way to learn vocabulary is to ___________.
What is read?
Affixes are the parts of words. So, affixes are ______ and ______.
What are prefixes and suffixes?
Alvin and all of his school friends think that this is the best way to avoid school. The best way to avoid school is to _____ _______.
What is get sick? Or,
What is get the chicken pox from Jules?
This text feature helps us view vocabulary words easily in the text or articles.
For example, the Boldt Decision in Social Studies had this text feature and Mrs. Reveira had you highlight the __________ words.
What are bold printed words?
This context clue type shows a relationship between two words to show a result of this happening because of something.
What is cause and effect?
For example, because of the rain, the crops will soon be plentiful.
To research, analyze, and create a summary of evidence that proves an opinion to be fact are examples of this Tier of Vocabulary.
What is Tier 2 or Academic Vocabulary?
We can figure out the meanings of unknown words with _______, __________, and ___________.
What are prefixes, root words, and suffixes?
The plan Alvin comes up with to help make friends at school is to _____ ________ _____ ___ ____ ___ ___
What is bring Johnny Astro for show and tell?