Adjectives
Science Terms
Verbs
Comprehension Strategies
Parts of a Book
100

Very big in size

Immense

100

A group of living things that are the same in many important ways

Species

100

Travel through a place to learn more about it, to learn about something in detail

Explore

100

A group of people who will see, hear, or read something

Audience

100

Writing that tells an imaginary story

Fiction

200

Small species of matter

Speck

200

Element found in food that helps living things grow and stay healthy

Nutrient

200

Push with force

Thurst

200

The order in which things happened

Sequence

200

An account of a person's life

Biography

300

Large and awkward

Bulky

300

The variety of life forms in one location

Biodiversity

300

To bring light to or shine light on

Illuminate

300

A guess or conclusion based on facts and observations

Inference

300

Written works that are based on facts, real people, or real events

Nonfiction

400

Having imaginative or unsual features, extreme, strange, or exceptional

Fantastic

400

The process through which green plants use sunlight to make nutrients from water and carbon dioxide

Photosythesis

400

To experiment with making, changing, or fixing something

Tinker

400

The reason for writing something

Purpose

400

Written words explaining a photograph, diagram, or other visual aid in a text

Caption

500

Eager to drink blood; violent

Bloodthirsty

500

Giving off light naturally by certain kinds of fish, insects, or bacteria

Bioluminescent

500
Came into view as a very large shape

Loomed

500

Giving human attributes to nonliving things

Personification

500

Something other than the main text that adds to the reader's understanding

Text Feature