digraphs
I need these number of letters to make a digraph.
What are 2 letters?
Tells the meaning of an unfamiliar word.
What is a definition?
Each syllable has a _______.
What is a vowel sound?
An idea you form based on evidence in a text along with information you already know.
What is an inference?
Vowel followed by a consonant.
What is a short vowel?
I am the four most commonly used digraphs.
What are th, sh, ch, wh? (in any order)
Describes the unfamiliar word by naming types of it.
What is an example clue?
Identifying syllables is the process of doing this with words.
What is breaking words into parts.
A story element that is not specific, but covers the whole idea of the story's message.
What is main idea?
Vowel 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?
Tells the meaning of an unfamiliar word by describing its opposite.
What is a contrast clue?
We can find how many syllables in this word: blank
What is one syllable?
Analyze the different information between two texts.
What is compare and contrast?
The vowel is long even though it is blocked by a consonant.
What is silent e?
The letter-sound rule diagraphs follow.
What is two letters making one sound?
Context clues are helpful with these type of words that can be identified with more than one meaning.
What are multiple-meaning words?
We can find how many syllables in this word:category
What is four syllables?
Supports what the text says explicitly.
What is textual evidence?
When two vowels are together, but only the first one is heard.
What is a vowel team?
I follow the same rule as digraphs, but with an extra letter.
What is a trigraph?
Tells the meaning of the unfamiliar word beside it, marked off by commas or dashes (, -).
What is an appositive clue?
What sound does the first /e/ make in this word: before
what is long e?
Four basic elements of a story.
What is character, setting, problem, and solution.
To spell the sound of the letter Qq, these two are always together.
What is qu?