Vocabulary
easy to see
What is noticeable?
Happening slowly.
What is gradual?
These clues may help you determine the meaning of unfamiliar words.
What are context clues?
Captions, headings, subtitles, and bold words are examples of these.
What are text features?
This genre gives information about a topic, develops the topic with facts, examples, and explanations, and may include graphs and photographs.
What is expository text?
Moving back or away.
What is receding?
Having a strong effect.
What is impact?
If you do this, you are writing or telling what you read about.
What is summarizing?
Text structure where phrases are included such as "however, on the other hand, and just as"
What is compare and contrast?
This genre includes real events in history, but is told using characters and may be mixed with fiction.
What is historical fiction?
The amount that something changes
The layer of gases around the earth.
What is atmosphere?
These are small parts of words added to the beginning of the word to change the meaning.
What is a prefix?
Written in chronological order.
What is sequencing?
This genre includes the true story of a person's life written by another person. It may be about someone who lived in the past or someone who is alive today.
What is a biography?
Solid, steady, and not changing much.
What is stability?
Giving human-like qualities to an inanimate object.
What is personification?
These are small parts added to the end of a word to change the meaning.
What is a suffix?
Words that sound the same but are spelled differently.
What are homophones?
This genre tells about characters and events that resemble people and events in real life. It happens in a setting that is real or seems real, and includes dialogue and descriptive details.
What is realistic fiction?
what is decays?
comparing two or more things using like or as.
What is a simile?
The text structure where something happens as a result of something.
What is cause and effect?
Words that are spelled the same but have different meanings.
What is a homograph?
This genre may include a made-up setting, such as"once upon a time, a prince or princess and magical characters, and illustrations.
What is a fairy tale?