| A | B |
| tradition | practices repeated for many generations |
| culture | common language, traditions, religion of a group of people |
| teenager | young adults ages 13-19 |
| barbecue | cook outside |
| strategy | a plan |
| prior knowledge | what you know from previous experience |
| build background | add to your knowledge of a subject before you read about it |
| question | ask |
| answer | response |
| draw conclusions | form an opinion based on pieces of information |
| recall | remember |
| facts | truth things |
| compare | identify similarities |
| contrast | identify differences |
| graphic organizer | visual representation of information in an organized way |
| Venn Diagram | graphic organizer used to compare and contrast |
| bar graph | bars represent information |
| web | another graphic organizer lines connect circles |
| genre | types of writing - adventure, romancet= |
| text | written information |
| narrative | a story |
| poem | a literary genre - sometimes rhyming |
| stanza | groups of lines in a poem |