Vocabulary Term

Picture

Definition

Corresponding Website

Sums Up

To put all together

http://reading.ecb.org/student/summarizing/monsters/

Point of View

Your opinion

http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/math-games/point-out-view/

State

To say

http://www.toonuniversity.com/aol/5l_fact.html

Evidence From The Text

Support from what you have read

http://www.izzygames.com/finding-evidence-t3568.html

Suggest

To mention or to introduce

http://www.timewarptrio.com/games/mysteries/

*** Just a reading game

Main Message

Main idea, central message, what the text is mainly about

http://www.pspb.org/blueribbon/games/burger/burger.html

Article

Short nonfiction text full of facts

http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/match/term/draggeneric.asp?filename=jwildepartsofbook1

**Parts of a book game.

Detail

Small piece of important information, details support the main idea

http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/ela4/h/suppoertingdetailsp2.cfm

Selection

Story you are reading

http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/330/reading/

** Just a reading website

Similar

How things are the same

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/dynamo/

***Reading Games

Difference

How two things are different

http://www.professorgarfield.org/pgf_ReadingRing.html

***Reading Game

Statement

Sentence take out of a story or article that you need to think about

http://education.jlab.org/reading/index.html

**Context Clue Fill In

Theme

Idea or message that the author wants you to think about (lesson)

http://mrswarnerarlington.weebly.com/theme.html

*** Videos not games. At the bottom of the page

Emotion

Words that describe how you feel

http://pbskids.org/itsmylife/games/story_strips_flash.html

Author’s Purpose

Why an author wrote something to entertain, persuade or inform

http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/match/term/matchgeneric2.asp?filename=kderitteauth

Summarize

Short version of what you read -- most important parts from beginning, middle, and end

http://www.funbrain.com/order/index.html

*** Sequencing Game

Compare/Contrast

Compare -- tells how something is the same

Contrast -- tells how something is different

http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/match/dragflip.asp?filename=kharris2contrast

Infer/Inferred

Use when you know based upon what you read

http://www.pspb.org/blueribbon/games/detective/DetectiveGame.html

Flow Chart

One event that leads to another

http://fcit.usf.edu/FCAT/strategies/sm/default.htm

**Story Mapping

Message Communicated

Lesson learned

http://www.funenglishgames.com/readinggames/nonfiction.html

**Nonfiction Game

Synonym

Words that mean the same (messy/sloppy)

http://www.abcya.com/synonyms_antonyms.htm

Antonym

Words that are opposites (small/huge)

http://www.learninggamesforkids.com/vocabulary-games/antonyms/antonym-or-synonym.html

According to

In agreement with (according to the author …)

http://www.funenglishgames.com/readinggames/directions.html

***Following Directions

Caption

Words that tell about a photograph

http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/games_quizzes/writecaption/index.asp

Climax

Turning point in a story

https://www.learner.org/interactives/story/index.html

Illustration

Drawn picture

https://www.quia.com/rr/335442.html?AP_rand=924935265

Quotes

Words right from a story

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/english/

***Reading, Writing, Spelling, and Grammar

Purpose of dialogue

To tell you something, to get a point across

http://pbskids.org/arthur/games/comiccreator/comiccreator.php

Modify

To change

http://ngexplorer.cengage.com/ngyoungexplorer/moreissues.html

***Nonfiction Reading

Tone

An author's attitude about the topic they are writing about

https://www.brainpop.com/english/writing/moodandtone/

Genre

Type of story you are reading-fiction, nonfiction, poem, biography, mystery

http://reviewgamezone.com/games/supershooter/index.php?2196&title=Literary+Genres+B

Express

To show

http://pbskids.org/wordgirl/games/comicstripcapers/

Response

Written answer

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?e=reading03

***Finding Information

Represent

To stand for

http://www.storylineonline.net/

*** Just a typical reading website.

Figurative Language

Words an author uses to make writing more interesting

http://www2.smarttutor.com/player/swf/RC_Poetry_L3_V1_T1a.swf

Simile

Compares 2 unlike things using like or as

https://www.studyladder.com/games/activity/similes-22773

Metaphor

Compares 2 unlike things but DOES NOT use like or as; usually uses is or are

https://www.quia.com/ba/42131.html

Idiom

Play on words -- words do not actually mean what they say (My brother drives me up the wall means he’s making me crazy)

http://www.vocabulary.co.il/idioms/

Personification

When an author gives unhuman things, human characteristics

https://www.quia.com/mc/611264.html

***Figurative Language Matching

Hyperbole

A huge exaggeration

https://www.quia.com/hm/80390.html

***Figures of speech hangman

Convery

To make known, to tell

http://www.funenglishgames.com/readinggames/poem.html

***Poetry Game

Visualize

To recall or form images or pictures in your mind

http://www.pspb.org/blueribbon/games/visual/Visual.html

Cause/Effect

Because something happened, this is the result (Since we had 6 inches of snow, we had a snow day!)

https://www.quia.com/quiz/907479.html?AP_rand=581071149

Fact

Something that can be proven

http://pbskids.org/arthur/games/factsopinions/

Opinion

Something someone thinks

http://www.roomrecess.com/pages/FactOpinion.html

Poetry

Written in stanzas, may rhyme, or have a rhythm

http://interactivesites.weebly.com/poetry.html

Retelling

Restate everything you can remember about a story, in sequential order

http://www.netrover.com/~kingskid/anchors/anchors_main.htm

Essential

Absolutely necessary

http://www.funenglishgames.com/readinggames/dictionary.html

***Dictionary Skills