| A | B |
| spec | root word for "to see" |
| spectacular | AMAZING to see! |
| speculate | seeing in the future/predicting |
| spectacles | glasses to see with |
| hypodermic | underneath skin |
| epidermis | surface of skin |
| geometry | math involving 3D shapes |
| geography | SURFACE of the earth/landforms |
| Connecting | relating to the story |
| text to self | to connect based on your own experience |
| text to text | to connect based on a book you read or a movie you saw |
| text to world | to connect based on news in the world or trends in culture |
| determining importance & summarizing | Strategies to "Sum it Up" |
| Visualizing | to play a movie in your head while reading |
| historical fiction | real time in history but made-up story |
| realistic fiction | could have happened but did not |
| science fiction/fantasy | uses imagination with technology or magic |
| non-fiction | not fake- TRUE! |
| biography | story about someone's life written by a third party |
| autobiography | story of someone life written by him/herself |
| "auto" means - | self |