Reading Skills
The people or animals in a story are called this.
What are characters?
A word that means the same or almost the same as another word.
What is a synonym?
The word cat has this many syllables.
What is one?
This tells what a book or passage is about.
What is the title?
This punctuation mark goes at the end of a statement.
What is a period?
The place and time where a story happens are called this.
What is the setting?
A word that means the opposite of another word.
What is an antonym?
The two letters in sh work together to make this kind of sound.
What is a consonant digraph?
This is a list of topics and the pages where they can be found, usually at the beginning of a book.
What is the table of contents?
This type of sentence asks a question and ends with a question mark.
What is an interrogative sentence?
The lesson or message a reader learns from a story is called this.
What is the moral?
Use the sentence to figure out what an unfamiliar word means. These are hints found around the word.
What are context clues?
In the word cake, the letter e at the end makes the vowel say its name. This is called this.
What is a silent e or final-e pattern?
This is a short description written under a photograph.
What is a caption?
This is the naming part of a sentence.
What is the subject?
The most important idea in an informational text is called this.
What is the central idea?
The word unhappy has this prefix, which means “not.”
What is un-?
The word sunset is made by putting these two words together.
What is sun and set?
This helps readers find places and understand where things are located.
What is a map?
This is the action or telling part of a sentence
What is the predicate?
The events in a story, including the beginning, middle, and end, make up this.
What is the plot?
The words jump, jumped, and jumping share this meaningful word part.
What is the base word jump?
The vowel sounds in coin are represented by these two letters working together.
What is the vowel team oi?
This text feature uses letters or words in dark, thicker print to make them stand out.
What is bold print?
This is a group of sentences that tells about one main idea.
What is a paragraph?