Informational Vocabulary
Grade 3 - Reading - On Level
Which clue helps define 'consumer' in a food-chain article?
- a plant that makes food
- a rock layer
- a number line
- an animal that eats plants or other animals
Which word means a source written by someone who saw an event?
- secondary source
- primary source
- quotient
- bar graph
Which meaning fits 'scarcity' in a social studies text?
- a kind of weather
- a shape category
- a vowel sound
- not enough resources for every want
A text says a habitat is a place where an organism gets food, water, and shelter. What does habitat mean?
- a math operation
- an organism's living place
- a punctuation mark
- a type of clock
In an article, 'precipitation' means rain, snow, sleet, or hail. Which word is being defined?
- temperature
- perimeter
- precipitation
- character
Which word means a repeated weather observation over time?
- fiction
- dialogue
- denominator
- pattern
What should a reader do when a science term is unfamiliar?
- skip the whole text
- choose the longest meaning
- look for definitions, examples, and context clues
- ignore nearby sentences
In a map article, what does 'region' most likely mean?
- a multiplication fact
- a story ending
- a single punctuation mark
- an area with shared features
Which context clue explains 'erosion' in this sentence: Water carried soil away from the hill in a process called erosion?
- called
- from the hill
- Water carried soil away
- this sentence
An article says a material is 'flexible' because it bends without breaking. What does flexible mean?
- able to bend
- very heavy
- full of water
- unable to move