Reading L to J vocabulary

using information from a story to determine what will happen next

• table of contents

• predicting

• summarizing

• paraphrase

to give a brief statement of the main ideas of text; to tell what's important

• context clues

• opinion

• summarizing

• fact

to figure out meaning with an educated guess

• inference

• cause and effect

• supporting detail

• thesis

information that appears near a word or phrase that are used to help figure out its meaning

• inference

• excerpt

• context clues

• cause and effect

sources that tell information about a word (includes dictionaries, glossaries, and thesauruses)

• table of contents

• index

• citations

• references

a dictionary of synonyms and antonyms

• thesaurus

• dictionary

• references

• table of contents

a book of word meanings

• thesaurus

• references

• dictionary

• citations

how the information within a written text is organized

• text structure

• proposition/support

• supporting detail

• paraphrase

information is organized in order of time

• descriptive

• spatial

• sequence

• chronological

a difficulty is described an an answer is offered

• cause and effect

• compare and contrast

• problem/solution

• sequence