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This classroom guide provides an overview of essential graphic features and vocabulary terms crucial for understanding nonfiction texts. Students will learn to identify graphic features such as tables, indexes, and glossaries, alongside vocabulary like assumption, main idea, and genres. Through engaging examples and definitions, learners will enhance their comprehension skills in reading and interpreting both fiction and nonfiction. The guide also includes exercises that encourage application of the concepts within classroom discussions, ultimately preparing students for assessment on March 1.
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MSP Vocabulary #1 In class work beginning 2/5 through 2/27 TEST March 1
Vocab: Graphic Features 2-27 • Which of the following should not be included in a listing of graphic features: • Dialog, graphs, charts, genres, maps, key words, diagrams, figurative language, tables, similes
Graphic features • Definition: Features that illustrate information in the text. Features that you could draw. • Answer: dialogs, genres, key words, figurative language and similes
Vocab: Assumption 2-26 • Choose the sentence that best describes the use of the word assumption. • A. She and Michael did an assumption. • B. There was an assumption of the team. • C. His assumption was that the author was the narrator. • D. An assumption is a fact.
Assumption • Definition: An assumption is a statement or thought taken to be true without proof. • Answer: C.
Vocab: Table of Contents, Index, Glossary, Gazetteer 2-25 • Explain, with an example, the purpose of each of the above terms as they are used in nonfiction text.
Table of Contents, Index • Table of Contents • A sequential overview of each major section of the text • Index • An alphabetical listing of specific parts of the text; usually important parts
Glossary, Gazetteer • Glossary • An alphabetical listing of difficult words or phrases • Gazetteer • An alphabetical listing of geographic names
Vocab: Infer & Inference 2-22 • Give the part of speech and the definition of each of the words above. • Use each correctly in a sentence about fictional text.
Infer and Inference • Infer: verb. Definition: to understand something not directly stated in the text. Example: (Grace) beamed at her perfect child (Angela) • Inference: noun. Definition: a logical conclusion based on prior evidence. Example: “What’s this a bedroom or a closet?” It would do fine for Turtle.
Vocab: Syllabication 2-21 • How is the following sentence an example of syllabication? • I like working in groups due to co-operation with teammates.
Syllabication • To divide a word into syllables. • In the example, the word cooperation was hyphenated at the syllable break: co op er a tion
Vocab: Main Idea & Theme 2-20 • How are main idea and theme different? • Give an example of each using fiction text.
Main Idea • The central idea or thought; the chief topic of a passage. This can be a phrase, a word, or a sentence. • Example: The main idea of this chapter is leasing apartments to possible tenants
Theme • The author’s message embedded in the text. It is the message that the author wants to give to the reader. • The one of the themes of Holes is friendship; another theme is loyalty.
Vocab: Genres 2-5 • What does the word genres mean in the following sentence: “Mary reads different genres of books” Give three examples of types of genres.
Genres • A category of fiction in which the text has specific characteristics. • Example: Mystery. It is unique because it requires a denouement and red herring to fit the mystery genre.
Vocab.: Plot 2-6 • Define the word “plot” as it relates to fiction.
Plot • The structure of the elements (parts) of fictional text. For example: setting, characters, events, climax, denouement, resolution and conclusion.
Vocab: Text Features 2-7 • Which of the following is a text feature: • A. :, ! ? (symbols) • B. citation • C. chapter title Define text feature
Text Feature • A noticeable trait or quality of a type of text – fiction or nonfiction.
Vocab: Sequential 2-8 “The steps of the social pyramid are sequential.” • In the sentence above, replace the word sequential with another word that means the same. Rewrite the sentence with the new word.
Sequential • The order of information such as large to small, easy to difficult. • “The steps of the social pyramid are ordered.”
Vocab: Story Elements 2-11 • What does the term story elements mean? • Give an example
Story Elements • The critical parts of the story such as characters, setting, conflicts, solutions
Vocab. Fact and Opinion 2-13 • Define the word fact as the concept is used in a story. • Define the word opinion as the concept is used in a story.
Fact and Opinion • Fact: Information that is proven, has evidence, verifiable, can be tested, is unchanging at that time. • Opinion Idea, thought, concept, theory, feeling, lacks evidence, has many origins.
Vocab. Predict 2-14 • Complete the following task: • Explain what you predict will happen on your next birthday. Give a reason for your prediction.
Predict • What will happen next; • You need to have something to support your prediction. • Example, on my next birthday I predict that my husband will bring home an ice cream cake because that is the tradition in our home for every birthday.
Vocab: Humor 2-19 • “I liked that story because it was filled with humor.” • Define the word humor as it is used in the sentence and give an example from fiction.
Humor • Text that contains traits that make it laughable or amusing. • Example: In the text it says that Bryce was really clumsy. He was so clumsy that when he walked down the hallway he hit his head on the wall.
