Story

Title

Genre

Skill

Vocab Words

#1

Into the Volcano

Narrative Non-Fiction

Main Idea/Details

Cascaded, documentation, dynamic, exerts, plummeting, pulverize, scalding, shards

#2

Little Blog on the Prairie

Realistic Fiction

Compare/Contrast

Consolation, glimmer, heinous, indispensable, perception, phobic, sarcastic, threshold

#3

Economic Rollercoaster

Informative Article

Author’s POV

Available, basically, factors, fluctuate, formula, inventory, manufactured, salaries

#4

Journey Into The Deep

Expository Text

Main Idea/Details

Classification, compartment, engulfs, flanked, maneuvering, obscure, species, submerged

#5

Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg

Historical Fiction

Sequence

Adversity, alliance, confinement, inflicted, reminisce, retrieved, smuggle, spindly

#6

Who Created Democ.

Expository Text

Compare/Contrast

Aspiring, foundation, preceded, principal, promote, restrict, speculation, withstood

#7

Roman Diary

Historical Fiction

Point of View

Alcove, commerce, domestic, exotic, fluent, stifling, upheaval, utmost

#8

Majestic, Mummy, Clay

Poetry

Theme

Commemorate, contemplate, forlorn, lyric, poetry, meter, rhyme, scheme, sonnet

#9

Tech. of Mesopotamia

Expository Text

Problem/Solution

Artifact, communal, derived, inscription, millennium, stationery, utilize, yields

#1     

Camping With The President

Narrative Non-Fiction

Cause/Effect

Debris, emphasis, encounter, generations, indicated, naturalists, sheer, spectacular

#2     

One Hen

Realistic Fiction

Plot/Sequence

Afford, loan, profit, prosper, risk, savings, scarce, wages

#3     

Future of Transportation

Argumentative Text

Point of View

Access, advance, analysis, cite, counterpoint, data, drawbacks, reasoning

#4     

The Boy Who Invented TV

Biography

Sequence

Breakthrough, captivated, claimed, devices, enthusiastically, envisioned, passionate, patents

#5     

2^nd Day First Impressions

Realistic Fiction

Problem/Solution

Accomplish, anxious, assemble, decipher, distracted, navigate, options, retrace

#6     

Who Wrote the US Const.

Expository Text

Problem/Solution

Committees, convention, debate, proposal, representatives, resolve, situation, union

#7     

Blancaflor

Folktale

Theme

Assuring, detected, emerging, gratitude, guidance, outcome, previous, pursuit

#8     

Stage Fright, Catching Quiet, Foul Shot

Poetry

Theme

Ambitious, memorize, satisfaction, shudder, repetition, rhyme, free verse, narrative poem

#9     

The Boy Who Drew Birds

Biography

Sequence

Behaviors, disappearance, energetic, flurry, migrate, observation, theory, transformed