Reading Academic Vocabulary

What does the term "compare" mean in the context of this learning material?

• To contrast things and find differences

• To find things alike or similar

• To describe the characteristics of one item

• To analyze the importance of an event

What is "imagery" according to the document?

• A visual representation in a text

• A descriptive language that involves the five senses

• A metaphorical expression

• A narrative technique

What is the purpose of "text feature" in a document?

• To provide additional information in the form of images

• To highlight the most important parts of a text

• To decorate the text

• To summarize the text content

What does "autobiography" refer to?

• A biography written by another person

• A story of a person's life written by that person

• A fictional account of someone's life

• A daily diary entry

What does "synonym" mean?

• A word that sounds the same as another word

• A word that has the opposite meaning of another word

• A word that means the same as another word

• A word that is spelled the same as another word

What is the "author's purpose" for writing, as defined in the document?

• To entertain, persuade, and argue

• To inform, entertain, and describe

• To persuade, inform, explain, and entertain

• To narrate, describe, and convince

What is a prefix?

• A word part that can be added to the BEGINNING of a word to make new word

• A group of lines in a poem

• A word part that can be added to the END of a word to make up a new word

• The order in which things happen or should happen

What does the term "central idea or main idea" refer to?

• What the text is MOSTLY about

• A picture or drawing

• The narrator of a poem

• Clues in surrounding text that help the reader determine the meaning of an unknown word

What is a stanza?

• The reason WHY something happens

• A word that means the OPPOSITE of another word

• A group of lines in a poem

• How the information within a written text is organized

What are context clues?

• Clues in surrounding text that help the reader determine the meaning of an unknown word

• The order in which things happen or should happen

• Most helpful

• A picture or drawing