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• Opinion: The education, impression or estimation of the value or worth of a person or thing.
• Agreement or Disagreement: The simple act of saying you either agree or disagree is already an expression of opinion
• Fact: is proven
• opinion: cannot be proven
• Context Clues: are hints that the author gives to help define a difficult or unusual words.
• Definition: the meaning of the vocabulary word is in the sentence itself usually following the unfamiliar word.
• Synonym: the sentence uses a similar word to help explain the meaning of the vocabulary word.
• Antonym: the sentence uses a word with an opposite definition to give the meaning of the vocabulary word.
• Examples: this type of context clues uses examples or explanations to help the reader infer the meaning of the vocabulary word.
• Apposition: a phrase following the word which give the meaning and is set off by commas.
• Comparison: a phrase beginning with Like or As follows the word.
• Description: when a reader describe the word to understand the meaning of thethe vocabulary word.
• Topic Sentence: a sentence that can be found sometimes at the beginning middle or end of paragraph which correspond to the topic of a paragraph.