1. Reading Vocabulary Words
Third Grade by
Serena Georges

2. Who, What, Where, When, Why (non-fiction)
summarize
To tell what a story is mostly about. To give the short version.
SWBSTF (fiction)
Who, What, Where, When, Why (non-fiction)

3. explain
To tell how; put it in my own words

4. inference
To figure out what it means by using clues in the text and my own knowledge

5. evaluate
Make judgments about what I read and explain why

6. questioning
To ask questions before, during and after reading to understand what I’ve read

7. visualize
Create a movie in my mind while I’m reading

8. prior
knowledge
Use what I already know to help me understand something new

9. connections
Make connections between different things I read

10. describe
To tell all about

11. compare
To show how people, places or things are alike

12. analyze
To break apart and study the pieces; investigate

13. contrast
To show how people, places or things are different

14. support
To give facts that are backed up by details

15. Abraham Lincoln was President.
fact
Abraham Lincoln was President.
A piece of information that can be proven true

16. Fairly Odd Parents is the best cartoon!
opinion
Fairly Odd Parents is the best cartoon!
The ideas and beliefs that I have about something

17. trait
A distinguishing quality or characteristic of a person or character

18. character
A person, animal or imaginary creature that takes part in the action of a story

19. plot
The action of the story. The series of events that happens from the beginning to the end of the story

20. setting
Where and when a story takes place

21. cause
Why something happened

22. effect
What happens as the result of a cause

23. main
idea
The central thought or message; topic or idea

24. context
clue
To determine the meaning of a word by using the context

25. Persuade. Inform, Entertain
author’s
purpose
Persuade. Inform, Entertain
The reason why the author wrote the story, book or passage

26. sequence
To put the important events in order

27. conclusion
The decision I make using what I know in my head and what I’ve read in the story

28. prediction
To say what will happen in the future using clues to support my guess

29. multiple
meaning
words
A word that has more than one meaning

30. problem
A question raised for consideration or solution; fiction story element

31. solution
This is how the problem is solved; fiction story element

32. Words that have the opposite meaning
antonyms
Small Large
Words that have the opposite meaning

33. Words that have the same or similar meanings
synonyms
small tiny
Words that have the same or similar meanings

34. A group of letters added before a word or base to change its meaning
prefix
in- not
incomplete
dis- not or opposite of
disagree
A group of letters added before a word or base to change its meaning

35. A group of letters added after a word or base to change its meaning
suffix
-er one who
-or one who
-less without
-able, -ible can be
farmer
actor
useless
buildable
reversible
A group of letters added after a word or base to change its meaning

36. schema

37. figurative
language
I’m as hungry as a horse.
Language used by authors to help the reader create a picture in the mind (similes, metaphors and idioms are types of figurative language)

38. When an author makes a comparison between two things
metaphor
Tammy was such a hog. She ate all of the pizza.
When an author makes a comparison between two things

39. simile
She is as pretty as a picture.
When an author makes a comparison between two things using the words ‘like’ or ‘as’

40. idiom
It’s raining cats and dogs outside.
a phrase that has a special meaning different from the actual meaning of the words

41. fiction
books that are made up or not true

42. non fiction
Books that are true and are about real things, people, events or places

43. previewing