Reading Academic Vocabulary Comprehensive Word ListsReading/Fluency

Reading/Comprehension of

Literary Text/Drama

Reading/Vocabulary Development Reading/Comprehension of

Literary Text/Theme and Genre

expressionfluency

readtext

dramafilmplay

playwrightstage direction

adageaffix

ambiguousanalogy

antonym/synonymclarify

deriveddeterminedictionary

foreignglossary

Greek affixGreek root

idiomLatin affixLatin root

linguistic rootmultiple meaning

wordspronunciation

rootsayingsyllable

thesaurusunderstandunfamiliarvocabulary

whole word choice

classicalcomprehension

culturedescribedistinguishepic talefictiongenre

historicalinference/infer

literaryliterature

moralmovement

mythphenomena

placetheme

timeReading/Comprehension of

Literary Text/PoetryReading/

Comprehension of Literary

Text/Sensory Language

Reading/Comprehension of Text/Independent

Reading

Reading/Comprehension of

Literary Text/Fiction

alliterationanalyze

hyperboleinternal rhymeonomatopoeiapersonification

poet

authorevaluateimagery

moodrefrain

sensory language

journallogical orderreading log

characterclimaxconflict

denouement dialectexplainfalling

motivationnovelplotplot

developmentrelationshiprising action

poetryrhyme schemesound effect

BOLD high-frequency word in the TEKS

actionforeshadow

forms

role turning point

Reading/Comprehension of Literary Text/Literary

Nonfiction

Reading/Comprehension of Informational Text/Expository

Text

Reading/Comprehension of Informational Text/Persuasive

Textautobiography

biographycharacteristic

diaryliterary device

literary languagememoir

nonfictionstructural pattern

classification schemeclaims

compare and contrastdifferent

draw conclusionslogical

connectionmain ideameaningmethodopinion

organizational

overviewproblem-and-

solutionproposition-and-

supportsequential order

similaritiessummarize

summarysupporting detail

synthesizetext feature

verify

ad hominemargument

author’s viewpointexaggerated

identifyparallelism

policyrhetorical fallacy

stereotype/ stereotypingstructureviewpoint

Reading/Comprehension of Informational Text/Culture and

History

Reading/Comprehension of Informational Text/Procedural

Texts

Reading/Media Literacy

author’s purposecontemporary

implicit/implied

BOLD high-frequency word in the TEKS

diagramfactual

illustrationinterpret

mapperformproblem

proceduralprocedure

quantitative (information)solvetable task

timeline

commercialcritiquedigital

documentaryexplicit

formality/informalityimage

influencemedianews

recognizetechnique

tonevenue

Reading/Fluency

Reading/Comprehension of Literary

Text/Drama

Reading/Vocabulary Development

Reading/Comprehension of Literary

Text/Theme and Genre

Reading/Comprehension of Literary Text/Poetry

Reading/Comprehension of Literary

Text/Sensory Language

Reading/Comprehension of Text/Independent Reading

Reading/Comprehension of Literary Text/Fiction

Reading/Comprehension of Literary Text/Literary Nonfiction

Reading/Comprehension of Informational Text/Expository Text

Reading/Comprehension of Informational Text/Persuasive Text

Reading/Comprehension of Informational Text/Culture and History

Reading/Comprehension of Informational

Text/Procedural Texts

Reading/Media Literacy