Academic Vocabulary

Using what you know and clues from the text to understand what the author is saying.

• Predict

• Infer

• Context Clues

• Text Features

Parts of a text that help a reader understand a nonfiction text

• Text Structure

• Contrast

• Genre

• Text Features

To tell how two or more things are similar or alike

• Compare

• Contrast

• Infer

• Genre

Categories of books based on similarities in style and topic

• Text Structure

• Predict

• Genre

• Text Features

To say or guess that something specific will happen in the future

• Contrast

• Predict

• Genre

• Compare

Clues in a text that help you figure out the meaning of an unknown word

• Context Clues

• Text Features

• Text Structure

• Infer

The way the author chooses to organize a nonfiction text so it is easier for readers.

• Text Features

• Predict

• Context Clues

• Text Structure

To tell how two or more things are different

• Compare

• Contrast

• Infer

• Predict

to make different; to change

• Alter

• Collapse

• Crisis

• Destruction

not behaving in a way that is expected

• hazard

• severe

• substantial

• undpredictable