Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 2
Reading Skills
Genre
Nonfiction Text Features
100

An object or device typically held in the hand, that helps get a task or job done. 

Tool

100

A repeated decorative design.

Pattern

100
This is what a passage or story is mostly about. 

Main idea

100

These stories reflect the culture or place they came from; they include a character who is known for being sneaky.

Trickster Tales

100
This nonfiction text feature shows where something related to the writing is located

map

200
Something one can recall from the past; stored in your brain

Memory

200

An order given to a person or animal to do something.

Command

200

These support the main idea in a piece of writing.

Details

200

This type of nonfiction writing gives facts about a science topic.

Science article

200
When words are printed darker than the other words.

Bold text/bold font

300

To make or do something the same way as something or someone else 

imitate

300

The ability to do something that comes from training, experience, or practice

skill

300

These are words that sound the same, but have different meanings and different spelling

homophones

300

This type of writing consists of the characters' speaking parts, but does not include dialog tags. (Dialogue tags explain who is speaking, like "hello!" said Mr. Demmert.)

Play script or screenplay

300

This text feature tells what one section of the writing will be about

section heading/heading

400

A way of sharing ideas, using a system of words or signs to express thoughts and feelings to one another

language
400

The power or skill to do something

ability 

400
When characters in a story are speaking, it's called ___________.

Dialogue

400

This type of nonfiction writing tells about someone else's life. 

biorgraphy

400

This tells about something in an illustration or photograph.

caption

500

To receive something (money, property, characteristic, etc.), usually from your parents.

inherit

500

The sharing of information

Communication

500

This is an idea that an author may present, but it cannot be proven. 

Opinion

500
This type of nonfiction writing tells about the author's own life 

autobiography

500

This is where you would look to find the page where a certain word or topic is located.

Index