Reading Academic Vocabulary

What tells us the page numbers of important topics?

What word describes why an author wrote a text?

What are details that support the main idea? (ex: facts about a topic)

What tells the main idea of a smaller section?

What is a part of a word called when it is divided when pronounced?

What text feature explains something?

What shows a real life picture that is important to the text?

What is a word that sounds like its meaning? (ex: Bang!)

What tells what will be read about? It tells the main idea of the whole section.

What shows extreme exaggeration?

What is giving human characteristics to nonhuman things? (i.e. The trees danced in the wind)

What word means the opposite of another word?

What are the words around an unknown word that help you understand its meaning?

What is a person or animal that is in a book?

What is a comparison of unlike things using the words "like" or "as"?

What text feature gives us the main idea of what we are reading about?

What is something that truly exists or really happened?

What page tells the chapters and their page numbers?

What are words that look thicker and darker than other words? These are important words.

What text structure says how things are alike or different?

What text structure describes an issue and how it will be fixed?

What are words that mean the same thing as another word?

What is a person, place, thing, or object?

What is a group of letters added to the end of a word that changes its meaning?

What text structure says that something causes something else?

What is the word that means what the story is mostly about?

Where can you find the definitions of words in a nonfiction text?

What is the beginning, middle, and end of a story? The important parts.

What explains what is going on in a photograph?

What gives extra information that is set apart from the main text, but still important?

What is the repetition of the first consonant sound in neighboring words?

What is a word that shows that someone owns something else?

What text feature gives the dates of important events in order?

What word describes where and when a story takes place?

What is a comparison of two unlike things?

What shows important locations?

What text structure orders events?

What is a group of letters that is added to the beginning of a word to change its meaning?

What is a form of a word the refers to more than one of something?