digraphs
How many letters make a digraph.
What are 2 letters?
What context clue tells the MEANING of an unfamiliar word.
What is a definition?
Each syllable has a _______.
What is a vowel sound?
An idea or answer you form based on evidence in a text and information you already know.
What is an inference?
In a closed syllable, is the vowel sound short or long?
What is a short vowel?
Name the four most commonly used digraphs.
What are th, sh, ch, wh? (in any order)
What context clue DESCRIBES the unfamiliar word by LISTING TYPES of it.
What is an example clue?
How do you identify the number of syllables in a word?
What is breaking words into parts. (Using vowel sounds)
A story element that is not specific, so its general, but covers the whole idea of the story's message.
What is main idea?
Type of vowel sound at the end of a syllable or word.
What is a long vowel?
I am always at the end of a short vowel word.
What is -ck?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!
Tells the meaning of an unfamiliar word by describing its opposite. Begins with the letters /con/
What is a contrast clue?
How many syllables in this word: blank
What is one syllable?
When you analyze the different information between two texts.
What is compare and contrast?
The vowel makes long sound, even though it is blocked by a consonant. What type of spelling pattern or type of syllable does this?
What is silent e?
What is the letter-sound rule diagraphs follow.
What is two letters making one sound?
Using context clues are helpful when a word has MORE THAN ONE meaning.
What are multiple-meaning words?
How many syllables in this word:category
What is four syllables?
You use this strategy to prove the answer from the text is correct.
What is textual evidence?
When two vowels are together, but only the first one is heard, making a long vowel sound.
What is a vowel team?
I follow the same letter-sound rule as digraphs, but with an extra letter.
What is a trigraph?
What is the purpose of using context clues? How do they help us?
Gives information in a sentence to help us figure out the meaning of an unknown word.
What sound does the first /e/ make in this word: before
what is long e?
Four basic elements of any story.
What is character, setting, problem, and solution.
To spell the sound of the letter Qq, these two are always together.
What is qu?