Grammar
Sentences
Vocabulary
Strategies for Reading for Comprehension
Pot Luck
100

This type of word describes an action or occurrence and can be used in the present, past, or future tense.

What is a verb?

100

This type of sentence makes a statement or provides information.

What is a declarative sentence?

100

This is when you use the words, phrases, or sentences around an unknown word to understand its meaning.

What is context clues?

100

This is a strategy you can use on a reading test that helps you to know what to look for before you read a passage.

What is read the questions first?

100

A character in a story who changes over time.

What is dynamic?

200

This type of word is used to join two or more words, phrases, or clauses.

What is a conjunction?

200

This type of sentence asks a question.

What is an interrogative sentence?

200

This is the first part of the word that helps you understand the meaning of a word.

What is a prefix?

200

This is when you imagine pictures in your mind as you read a passage.

What is visualization?

200

The word that shows the action in a sentence.

What is a verb?

300

This type of word takes the place of a noun or noun phrase in a sentence.

What is a pronoun?

300

This type of sentence gives a command or direction.

What is an imperative sentence?

300

This is the end of a word that helps you understand what the whole word means.

What is a suffix?

300

These are the items in a passage that are not words but help us with the meaning of the text.

What are pictures or charts or graphs?

300

The sentence that is made up of one one independent clause and at least one dependent clause.

What is a complex sentence?

400

This type of word is used to describe or modify a noun or pronoun in a sentence.

What is an adjective?

400

This type of sentence expresses strong feeling or emotion, often punctuated with an exclamation mark.

What is an exclamatory sentence?

400

This is the main part of a word that tells the meaning.

What is the root?

400

This is when you can imagine what will happen later in the story based on clues you read now.

What is predicting?

400

The type of story about someone's life written by someone else.

What is an autobiography?

500

This type of word is used to express strong emotions or feelings and is often set apart by an exclamation point.

What is an interjection?

500

This type of sentence combines two or more independent clauses with a coordinating conjunction.

What is a compound sentence?

500

This is how a word is used in a sentence that can help you know what the word means.

What is part of speech?

500

This is when an author gives us a part of the story that happened in the past.

What is flashback?

500
These are stories that aren't real.

What is nonfiction?