Suffixes
This prefix turns a noun in to a specific person doing an activity.
What is -ist?
This kind of writing provides true facts.
What is informative writing.
An alphabetical list of terms within a book that tells readers what words mean, like a little dictionary.
What is a glossary
This prefix changes words to mean not and works like in-.
What is non-?
Words that are used for a person, place, thing or animal.
What are nouns?
This suffix is at the end of an adjective to show the state of the noun.
The first sentence in a paragraph that tells about the main idea.
What is a topic sentence?
A title at the head of a page or section of a book.
What is a header?
This prefix means too much or above.
What is over-?
Words that are used for a person, place, thing or animal that has a specific name.
What are proper nouns?
The suffix turns a verb into a noun that is doing the action it describes.
What is -er or -or?
The end paragraph that restates the main idea.
What is a conclusion?
The words under an image.
What is a caption?
This prefix means below something.
What is under-?
Friday is this type of noun.
What is a proper noun?
The suffix that changes ski to skier.
What is -er?
The first sentence that gets the reader interested in your topic.
What is a hook?
This lists the topics in the text and what pages those topics are on.
What is the table of contents?
This prefix means not and words works like non-
What is in-?
The past tense of sit.
What is sat?
Add this suffix to the word teach to make a noun.
What is -er?
What we use to organize our ideas before we begin writing.
What is a graphic organizer?
An illustration of important information.
What is a diagram?
What is under-?
The part of speech that shows an action.
What is a verb?