Reading Vocabulary 1
Reading to Understand
Terms
undefined, object
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- adjectives
- describe nouns (red, blue, big, fourth)
- fact
- something that can be proven
- opinion
- personal judgement that someone thinks is true
- text features
- features used to get attention in reading (font size, bold, italics, indentions, graphics)
- homonyms/homophones
- words that are pronounced the same, but are spelled differently, and have different meanings
- author's purpose
- inform, persuade, entertain
- homographs
- words that have more than one definition
- synonyms
- words that have the same or almost the same meaning
- pronouns
- take the place of a noun (I, you, he, it, she, they, we, his, our)
- adverbs
- describe the verb (quickly, slowly, softly)
- acronyms
- words formed from the first letter of each word (Restate Answer Proof = RAP)
- verbs
- action words or linking words
- suffix
- word part that is added to the end of a word (ist, er, ful)
- nouns
- persons, places, things, or ideas
- antonyms
- words that have opposite meanings
- root word/base word
- main part of a word (play in unplayful)
- compound words
- two words combined together to make a new word with a different meaning
- prefix
- word part that is added to the beginning of a word (re, un, in, im,dis)