1. Kansas State Reading Assessment

2. Clues given in a passage as to the meaning of the word.

3. A dictionary listing of a word giving its meaning

4. The main part of a word; also called a base word

5. One or more letters added to the beginning of a root word that changes the word’s meaning.

6. One or more letters added to the end of a root word that changes the word’s meaning.

7. The shortening of a word or word group by omitting letters and replacing them with an apostrophe

8. Explanatory aids in nonfiction text including the title, headings and subheadings, graphs/charts, pictures/illustrations, captions, sidebars, boldface and italicized words that aid in the understanding of the text.

9. A listing by page number of the main topics of a book, usually found in the front of the book

10. Word that is darker type than the words around it, used to help signal that the word is more important than the text around it

11. Words that are in a slanted type to indicate that a word, phrase, or sentence is important

12. An alphabetical listing of key words from a book and their definitions with page numbers where the word appears

13. A list, found in the back of a book, giving the location of every important idea, term, definition, person, and place mentioned in the text

14. A sentence or phrase written under a picture to tell about or explain the picture

15. The title of a passage or text which announces the topic to be covered, generally printed in bold type for emphasis

16. Headings within a text passage which indicate the topic to be covered, narrower than the focus in the heading

17. The sentence that expresses the main idea of a paragraph

18. A conclusion drawn from combining information read with information from experience or assumed

19. Making a decision or voicing an opinion based on reasoning or inferring

20. The patterns or arrangement of ideas in a text passage

21. A text structure in which one event or action follows another

22. A text structure which identifies and describes a problem and then offers one or more possible solutions

23. A text structure that explains why things happen

24. A text structure which explains the similarities and/or differences of two or more things, ideas, traits, etc.

25. A text structure using sensory details to create an image in words

26. An examination of how two or more things are similar or alike

27. An examination of how two or more things are different

28. Words in sentences or paragraphs that help show how ideas or paragraphs are organized or structured

29. Identifies the “WHY” of an event

30. Identifies the result of a cause

31. The text type that tells a story or tale including fiction, biography, or autobiography

32. The text type that seeks to explain or inform

33. The text type that gives directions or explains a procedure to complete a specific task

34. Something that happens

35. The most important idea in a paragraph or text which is the idea that the author wants to get across, may be implied or may be found in the first or last sentence

36. Sentences in a paragraph or piece of text that explain or support the main idea of the text

37. The subject of a text passage, the subject about which the author is writing

38. The author’s reason for creating a piece of writing; to inform, to entertain, to persuade, to describe, or a combination of these

39. An idea that can be proven to be true or false

40. A personal judgment that someone thinks is true, but that may be true or false

41. The most important people in a story

42. In fiction, where and when a story takes place

43. In a narrative, the problem of the main character(s)

44. In a narrative, the solution to the problem of the main character(s)