Unit 1 Vocabulary

What is nonfiction?

• Stories that contain real facts and are true

• a logical guess using bits of information

• visualizing physical details from a text such as actions, characters, scenes, events, and setting

• not hurried reading

What is genre?

• answering in your own words

• a book

• a type of literature

• reading without errors

What is a routine?

• The ability to stayed focused for long periods of time without being distracted or distracting others

• A sequence of actions regularly followed

• ability to read, write, speak, and listen in a way that allows us to communicate effectively

• not hurried reading

What is a mental image?

• a picture

• not hurried reading

• to sum things up

• visualizing physical details from a text such as actions, characters, scenes, events, and setting

What is a prediction?

• form of inference in which the reader gathers and analyzes details in order to anticipate and foresee forthcoming events and information

• restate the meaning of something in different words

• to reduce large sections of text to their essential points and maid ideas

• the main point of the story

What does it mean to summarize?

• put the meaning into your own words

• not hurried reading

• the attention, curiosity, interest and passion students show when they are learning or being taught

• to reduce large sections of text to their essential points and main idea

What is fiction?

• real stories with facts in them

• not hurried reading

• texts that are made up (fake stories)

• reading words without errors

What is accuracy?

• not hurried reading

• reading words without errors

• a type of literature

• reading fast

What is an inference?

• a logical guess made by connecting bits of information

• facts

• not hurried reading

• foresee forthcoming events and information

What does habits mean?

• routines and practices that help you achieve your goals

• to reduce large sections of text to their essential points and main idea

• ability to read, write, speak, and listen in a way that allows us to communicate effectively

• form of inference in which the reader gathers and analyzes details in order to anticipate and foresee forthcoming events and information