Reading+Vocabulary

 Reading Vocabulary for the EOG

Main Idea - what the story is mostly about

Supporting Details - give more information about the Main Idea

Setting - where and when the story takes place

Character - a person or animal in a story

Main Character - the person/animal that the story is about

Main Event - the biggest event that the story is about

Fact - a statement that is true and can be proven

Opinion - someones thoughts or feelings about something

Non-fact- a statement that was not in the story at all

Authors Purpose - why the author wrote the story,

there are 4 possible reasons

(pursuade, inform, entertain, or to express a thought or feeling)

Infrence - using the information you have read, and information

you already know to come to a conclusion about something

in the story.

Compair and Contrast - how two or more things are alike

and how they are different.

Sequence - the order in which things happen

Steps in a process - the order that something should be done in.

example - recipe, building plans

Prediction - using clues from the story to make a guess of what

might happen next.

Context Clues - using the sentences and words around an unknown

work to figure out its meaning.

Solution - how a problem in the story is solved

Conflict - the problem in the story

Cause - what happens

Effect - what happens because of the cause

(Ex. I didn't do my homework - cause

I earned a zero for my grade - effect)

Judgement - how a character feels or thinks about someone

or something in the story. (example - He doesn't like the

new boy because he is wearing a green shirt.)

Summary - a short explination of what happened in the story - squishing it down

to only tell the important facts.

Point of View - who is telling the story

 GRAMMAR VOCABULARY for the EOG    Sentence - a group of words the expressed a complete thought

Declarative Sentence - ends with a period and tells something ex. - The library is full of books.

Interrogative Sentence - ends with a question mark (?) and asks a question ex. - How many of those books have you read?

Imperative Sentence - ends with a period and give a command or makes a reuqest ex. - Look at the top of the building. or Please hand me the pencil.

Exclamatory Sentence - ends with an exclamation mark, and shows strong feelings or surprise. ex. - Wow! I've never been in a city this huge!

Subject - is the part of the sentence that tells the who or what the sentence is about

Complete Subject - all the words that make up the subject

Simple Subject - the most important word in the subject telling me exactly who or what the sentence is about. (1 word!) Predicate - is the part of the sentence that tells what the subject is or does. Compete Predicate - all the words that make up the predicate

Simple Predicate - the most important word or words in the predicate - always a VERB!!

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