Reading Vocabulary

Front

The main character in a story or the character who wants something.

Back

protagonist

Front

The character in the story who presents a problem or conflict for the main character.

Back

antagonist

Front

A lesson the readers may learn from the examples set by characters in the story.

Back

theme

Front

A paragraph which identifies the topic and main idea of a text and includes the most important details.

Back

summarize

Front

 Words that introduce and connect ideas in reasoning       sentences.

Back

transition words

Front

Words that identify where in the text a quote comes from, who the speaker was and what the situation is.

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signal words

Front

Steps a reader may take to determine the meaning of an unknown word. These include context clues, substituting synonyms, finding a root word, or looking at word parts like prefixes and suffixes.

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vocabulary strategies

Front

Words or evidence taken directly from a text, copied word for word correctly, and enclosed with quotation marks.

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quote

Front

An author’s process of describing a character through details about their physical appearance, thoughts, feelings, words and actions.

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characterization

Front

Rewriting a quote in your own words to explain its meaning.

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Paraphrasing