Reading & Language Arts Words (By RIT Score Range)
READING
RIT Score Range: 141–150
• beginning sound
• letter
• narrative
RIT Score Range: 151–160
• ABC order
• book
• ending sound
• paragraph
• prefix
• report
• rhyme
• riddle
• sentence
• story
RIT Score Range: 161–170
• advertisement
• base
• compound word
• contraction
• directions
• fairy tale
• folk tale
• index
• list
• main idea
• note
• nursery rhyme
• opposite
• passage
• personal narrative
• poem
• problem
• question
• root
• setting
• sign
• syllable
• table of contents
• thank-you note
• vowel
• word family
RIT Score Range: 171–180
• announcement
• article
• atlas
• author
• author's purpose
• bias
• biography
• business letter
• category
• chapter
• character
• cookbook
• dictionary
• effect
• fable
• fact
• fantasy
• journal
• label
• main character
• make-believe
• newspaper
• nonfiction
• opinion
• outline
• persuasive essay
• root word
• rule
• schedule
• science fiction
• short story
• statement
• suffix
• tall tale
• textbook
• title
• title page
RIT Score Range: 181–190
• advertise
• almanac
• antonym
• bibliography
• cause and effect
• characteristics
• classify
• conclusion
• conflict
• definition
• describe
• encyclopedia
• fiction
• genre
• glossary
• historical fiction
• instructions
• invitation
• legend
• magazine
• manual
• mood
• moral
• multisyllabic
• order of events
• phrase
• play
• plot
• poet
• poetry
• point of view
• predict
• reference book
• resource
• source
• summarize
• text
• theme
• thesaurus
• topic sentence
• Venn diagram
RIT Score Range: 191–200
• American literature
• analogy
• argue
• caption
• chart
• climax
• compare
• compare and contrast
• description
• detail
• develop
• drama
• entertain
• essay
• example
• fact and opinion
• figure of speech
• footnote
• guide words
• infer
• inference
• inform
• job announcement
• labels
• main point
• memoir
• meter
• myth
• narrator
• news
• novel
• persuade
• policy
• purpose
• recipe
• resolution
• rhythm
• rising action
• science book
• speaker
• stanza
• synonym
• topic
• vocabulary
• word root
RIT Score Range: 201–210
• acronym
• alliteration
• anecdote
• annotated bibliography
• anthology
• argument
• assumption
• autobiography
• book review
• British literature
• brochure
• catalog
• chronological order
• conclude
• context
• conversation
• dialogue
• diary
• draft
• editorial
• evaluate
• exaggeration
• excerpt
• explain
• feeling
• field guide
• figurative language
• graph
• graphic organizer
• homonym
• literary device
• literary element
• map
• middle sound
• pamphlet
• personal essay
• persuasion
• problem and solution
• reference
• reference material
• research
• review
• satire
• scene
• secondary source
• sequence
• simile
• speech
• summary
• verb
RIT Score Range: 211–220
• allusion
• appendix
• cause
• characterization
• characterize
• chronological
• classified ad
• connotation
• coupon
• debate
• diagram
• exposition
• falling action
• flashback
• foreshadowing
• guide letters
• headline
• hyperbole
• idiom
• imagery
• instruction
• irony
• memo
• memorandum
• metaphor
• narrate
• onomatopoeia
• parable
• personification
• persuasive
• picture book
• prediction
• present tense
• primary source
• primary source historical
document
• pun
• quote
• research paper
• resolve
• revision
• subject
• suspense
• thesis paper
• word play
RIT Score Range: 221–230
• aphorism
• assonance
• consonance
• contrast
• first person
• form
• homophone
• journalism
• literature
• quotation
• second person
• sonnet
• symbolism
• table
• tale
• term
• third person
• tone
• viewpoint
• voice
• world literature
RIT Score Range: 231–240
• archetype
• omniscient
• oxymoron
• paradox
• pathetic fallacy
• standard English
• stereotype
• symbolize
• syntax
RIT Score Range: 241–250
• cliché
• iambic pentameter
• metric feet
• synecdoche
RIT Score Range: 251–260
• antithesis
• parallelism
• scansion
LANGUAGE USAGE
RIT Score Range: 151–160
• sentence
RIT Score Range: 161–170
• capital letter
• comma
• command
• comparative
• date
• exclamation
• invitation
• letter
• mark
• paragraph
• period
• poem
• possessive
• question
• statement
• story
• superlative
RIT Score Range: 171–180
• advertisement
• apostrophe
• contraction
• cookbook
• directions
• edit
• essay
• exclamation mark
• exclamation point
• greeting
• phrase
• poetry
• pronoun
• proofread
• punctuation
• question mark
• report
• sequence
• short story
• sign
• spelling
• verb
• word order
RIT Score Range: 181–190
• action verb
• address
• audience
• body
• book report
• book title
• brainstorm
• business letter
• capitalize
• chronological order
• closing
• colon
• compound sentence
• detail
• diagram
• diary
• draft
• exclamatory sentence
• fact
• fairy tale
• friendly letter
• heading
• hyphen
• indent
• journal
• list
• main heading
• main topic
• narrative
• noun
• nursery rhyme
• outline
• passage
• past tense
• play
• plural
• predicate
• publish
• punctuate
• revise
• run-on sentence
• semicolon
• signature
• singular
• stanza
• subject
• title
• to describe
• topic sentence
• where
• writing process
RIT Score Range: 191-200
• abbreviation
• adjective
• adverb
• advertise
• argument
• article
• author's purpose
• bibliography
• biography
• book review
• cause and effect
• character
• classified ad
• clause
• compare
• compare and contrast
• composition
• conclusion
• creative writing
• data
• description
• descriptive writing
• dictionary
• drama
• ending
• explanation
• expository
• expository writing
• fantasy
• fiction
• figurative language
• folk tale
• form
• future tense
• grammar
• graphic organizer
• imperative sentence
• introduction
• letter closing
• literary analysis
• main idea
• manual
• margin
• memo
• mood
• narrative writing
• nonfiction
• novel
• opinion
• persuasive writing
• plot
• proper noun
• quotation
• quotation mark
• research
• review
• revision
• rhyme
• salutation
• schedule
• science fiction
• setting
• subject-verb agreement
• tense
• textbook
• thesaurus
• to entertain
• to inform
• to persuade
• topic
• verb phrase
• when
RIT Score Range: 201–210
antecedent
argumentative essay
author
autobiography
book
caret
chart
declarative sentence
definition
dependent clause
direct object
direct quotation
encyclopedia
explain
formal essay
formal language
format
freewrite
graph
informative essay
interrogative sentence
introductory sentence
legend
linking verb
literature
log
magazine
main verb
make-believe
mystery
myth
object
pamphlet
parentheses
prepositional phrase
present tense
sentence fragment
simile
singular noun
slang
subordinate clause
supporting detail
symbol
syntax
thank-you note
thesis statement
transition
word choice
RIT Score Range: 211–220
• abstract
• active voice
• alphabetical order
• analyze
• application
• appositive
• capitalization
• characteristics
• cluster
• comma splice
• common noun
• comparison
• complex sentence
• compound-complex
sentence
• conjunction
• contrast
• documentation
• editorial
• exposition
• expository essay
• figure of speech
• fragment
• generalization
• how-to essay
• hyperbole
• idiom
• imagery
• independent clause
• infinitive phrase
• instructions
• interjection
• journalistic
• language
• limerick
• main clause
• main point
• metaphor
• modifier
• noun clause
• noun phrase
• onomatopoeia
• organization
• parallelism
• part of speech
• participial phrase
• participle
• persona
• personification
• plural possessive
• preposition
• present participle
• prewrite
• prewriting
• primary source
• problem and solution
• process essay
• purpose
• resumé
• rhetorical question
• rough draft
• simple sentence
• source
• summarize
• summary
• synonym
• theme
• to explain
• tone
• verse
• visualize
• voice
RIT Score Range: 221–230
• alliteration
• allusion
• analogy
• assonance
• cliché
• compose
• consonance
• expository paragraph
• irony
• literary device
• literary response
• paraphrase
• parody
• participial
• persuasive argument
• plagiarize
• predicate noun
• reflexive pronoun
• symbolism
RIT Score Range: 231–240
• appositive
• adjective clause
• adjective phrase
• adverb clause
• allegory
• analysis
• apostrophes
• chapter
• colloquialism
• dash
• ellipsis
• epic poem
• fable
• footnote
• formal outline
• gerund
• hypothesis
• infinitive
• italics
• nominative pronoun
• objective pronoun
• supporting evidence
• tragedy
• underlining
• works cited
RIT Score Range: 241–250
• anecdote
MIDDLE SCHOOL SIGHT WORDS
**Must be able to say the word without "sounding-it-out"
LIST #1 LIST #2 LIST #3
admire cyclone fight
love rhythm thigh
move hydrogen hydrant
though cyst crystal
ought admirable myth
dough lovable cycle
fright moveable lymph
light thought sign
sigh bought resign
system although benign
LIST #4 LIST #5 LIST #6
campaign desert who’s
groan coarse align
grown course foreign
chord guest design
cord guessed patients
passed mist patience
past missed ad
pedal accept add
petal except air
dessert whose heir
LIST #7 LIST #8 LIST #9
isle cruise buoy
bored chili impossible
board chilly improbable
based soar immature
bass sore imprison
site flour impractical
sight flower impatient
feet seem immoral
feat seam imprint
crews boy improper
LIST #10 LIST #11 LIST #12
impersonal irresponsible cent
immortal irrational accept
advertise irreversible accent
addressed irresistible access
adapt illogical accident
admire illegible enclose
adjust illiterate encounter
advance centigrade encourage
admit century envelop
irregular centimeter proceed
LIST #13 LIST #24 LIST #15
produce circus compute
progress incision diagram
project include divisible
interrupt inhale equation
intermission infect equivalent
interpret transatlantic evaluate
international transcend estimation
circulate transfer evaluate
circumference translate formula
circumstance calculate kilometer
LIST #16 LIST #17 LIST #18
mean astronomy Europe
median atlas government
mode Australia historical
polygon civilization independence
probability compromise industrial
quotient conservative interdependence
range economics legislative
volume empire minority
agriculture environment neighborhood
Antarctica erosion patriotism
LIST #19 LIST #20 LIST#21
peninsula vineyard photosynthesis
political bacteria pollution
range decomposes protists
relationship eclipse solution
republic environment temperature
revolution evaporation aerobic
rural fungi athlete
San Joaquin hypothesis characteristics
taxation mixtures competitive
veteran organism cooperation
LIST #22 LIST #23
depressant classification
endurance contraction
immunizations dictation
infectious elaborate
relaxation homophone
stimulant punctuation
alphabetical syllables
antonym synonym
apostrophe although
capitalization among