Testing Vocabulary
Genre:
- Fiction – not real
- Nonfiction – real
- Fairy tales – once upon a time, happily ever after
- Fables – tall tales
- Poetry - stanza, rhymes, lines,
- Article – short story
- Passage – part of a story
- Magazine – advertisements and stories
- Newspaper – current events
- Glossary – a list of terms in a particular field or knowledge
- Atlas – book of maps
- Encyclopedia – information about topics in alphabetical order
- Dictionary – alphabetical index of words with meaning defined, pronunciation, syllabication and part of speech
- Table of contents – location of subject or topics in a book in numerical order
- Recipe – how to create something
- Almanac – important events during a given time
Story elements – character , setting, main idea, plot and conclusion
Explain – talk about, to discuss, a topic
Identify – to single out
Convince – to persuade
Include – to make a part of something
Except – to exclude, not use
Definition – meaning of a word
Support – keep something stable, why something is what it is, to back up\
Common – normal, everyday
Persuade – to get someone to do what you want them to do. Convince – Reason why something is written to persuade, inform, or entertain
Not given – not there, not in the question or story
Synonyms –words with the same, or almost the same meaning.
Antonyms – words with opposite meanings
Homonym – sounds or spells the same
Suffix – letters added to the end of a word to change its meaning
Prefix – words added to the beginning of a word to change its meaning
Summary – a restatement of important ideas from a selection in the writer’s own words
Sequence – the order in which events happen or in which items can be placed in a pattern
Conclusion – a logical decision you can make based on information from a reading selection or science experiment.
Syllable – basic unit of spoken word. Words can be broken up into syllables. A syllable has to have a vowel in it. (Vowels are: a,e,i,o,u)