2nd - Reading Launch Vocabulary

clarify

• judge

• explain or make something easier to understand

• answer

• spell a word

complex

• having lots of different parts

• a game

• colorful

• a kind of fish

determining importance

• figuring out little details

• a strategy to figure out what parts of the text are most important

• looking at illustrations

• looking at what happens in the middle of the book

Evidence

• Proof that you can see or read to show that something is true.

• an illustration

• a color

• an answer to a question

genre

• Someone's name

• An illustration or drawing

• What type of book or writing - for example poetry, fantasy, mystery, fiction, non-fiction

• A type of job

Inference

• to think

• to guess using information you already know

• to know

• all of the above

notate

• to be hungry

• to write notes

• to shake your head

• to read

prior knowledge

• information that you will learn about

• a headache

• what the learner already knows

• a correct answer

Recount

• to count things

• to walk fast

• to rest quietly

• to tell about what happened in a story

schema

• a fairy tale

• what you already know about a subject

• a chapter in a book

• a kind of snowboard