Academic Vocabulary Preview

What is the purpose of supporting details?

• to support the main idea

• to make it look good

• the most important part of text

• to make it longer

What do you call a story that is made up by the author?

• fairytale

• nonfiction

• fiction

• conflict

What do you call the people or animals that are in a story?

• facts

• setting

• plot

• characters

What is an opinion?

• authorś purpose

• facts about a topic

• someone´s thoughts and feelings

• the ending of a story

What do you need to make an inference?

• peanut butter and jelly

• details from the text and your own knowledge or schema

• antonyms

• problem & solution

What do you call a story that is true and real?

• fantasy

• poetry

• science fiction

• nonfiction or informational text

What is the when and the where of a story called?

• problems

• setting

• characters

• solution

What is a main idea?

• cause and effect

• root word

• what the story is mainly about or most important part

• plot

What do you do if you need to contrast?

• list the differences between two things

• connect to your knowledge

• put things into order

• list the similarities between two things

What do you do if you have a question about the passage you just read?

• skip over and keep reading

• look back and reread

• do your math instead

• daydream