Benchmark 1 Vocab

to feel frightened or in danger

• preserved

• invaluable

• threatened

• realize

to protect something so that it stays in its original state

• textiles

• preserved

• narrator

• significant

Using the language around a word to help understand its meaning

• invaluable

• descending

• author's purpose

• context clue

to go down to a lower level

• descending

• preserved

• significant

• realize

a fabric or cloth that has been woven or knitted

• invaluable

• preserved

• threatened

• textiles

very useful, important, or dangerous

• context clue

• narrator

• invaluable

• descending

the reason an author writes: P.I.E.E.

• author's purpose

• narrator

• context clues

• theme

the teller of a story

• invaluable

• narrator

• superior

• author's purpose

important or meaning a great deal

• textiles

• preserved

• significant

• realize

to become aware that something is true

• invaluable

• realize

• threatened

• significant