Word Wizards (Vocabulary)
These are words or sentences around an unknown word that help you figure out its meaning.
What are Context Clues?
This is the most important point the author is making in a paragraph or section.
What is the Main Idea or Central Idea?
This text feature is found under a picture and explains what is happening in the image.
What is a caption?
A sentence is "sick" if it is missing a subject or a predicate. We call this a sentence
What is a fragment?
When you "Revise," you are looking for ways to make the writing ________.
What is better/clearer?
This is the part of the word added to the beginning to change its meaning, like "re-" in redo.
What is a prefix?
This is a guess you make based on what you know and what the text says
What is an inference?
This part of a book is in the back and lists important words in alphabetical order with their page numbers.
What is the Index?
This punctuation mark is used to show someone is speaking out loud.
What are quotation marks?
This is the best place in a paragraph to put a "Topic Sentence."
What is the beginning?
If a word has multiple meanings, you should check this resource to find the one that fits the sentence.
What is a dictionary or glossary?
In a story, this is the "lesson" the character learns or the big message for the reader.
What is the Theme?
This type of text structure tells why something happened and what happened as a result.
What is Cause and Effect?
You must capitalize the names of specific people, places, and things, also known as
What are Proper Nouns?
These are words like "First," "Next," and "Finally" that help sentences move smoothly.
What are transition words?
This is a word that means the opposite of another word.
What is an antonym?
This is the reason an author writes a text (Persuade, Inform, or Entertain)
What is Author’s Purpose?
These dark, thick words call attention to important vocabulary in a text
What are bold words?
This is the type of error you have when two sentences are smashed together without a comma or conjunction.
What is a run-on sentence?
If a sentence has nothing to do with the main idea of the paragraph, the author should ________ it
What is delete/remove?
These two words are spelled the same but have different meanings, like "bat" (animal) and "bat" (sports equipment)
What are homographs?
These are the small facts or sentences that prove the main idea is true
What is Supporting Evidence?
This text feature organizes data into rows and columns so it's easy to read
What is a table or chart?
To make a sentence more "flowy," you might combine two short sentences using a comma and a word like "and," "but," or "so." This is called a ________ sentence.
What is a compound sentence?
This is what we call the sentence that clearly states what the whole essay is going to be about.
What is a Thesis Statement or Central Idea Statement?