Parts of Speech
What is a noun?
Shows a location or specific areas that talked about in the text.
What is a map?
The way an author explains when an event took place.
What is time?
The main idea is what the text is mostly about.
What is the main idea in the text?
To bite at or nibble something with teeth.
What is to gnaw?
Words that describe a noun.
What are adjectives?
Provides the definitions of unknown words or bold text.
What is the glossary?
The way an author explains the order in which events happened.
What is sequence?
Facts or examples that explain or prove the main idea.
What are supporting details?
To remain in one place or float in the air.
What is to hover?
A word that names an action.
What is a verb?
Labels places or parts of something discussed in the text.
What is a diagram?
How an author explains why things happen.
What is cause and effect?
The title, pictures and captions, repeated words, and the first and last sentences.
What are the clues to find the main idea?
A plant that often grows in dense yellow and green clumps in damp, shady areas.
What is moss?
A word, letter, or number placed before another.
What is a prefix?
Provides a summary of the information that is in the text.
What is a chart?
How the author shows difference and similarities between two or more things.
What is comparison?
Facts that tell you more and details that support the main idea.
What are the clues to find supporting details?
Areas where water covers the soil all or part of the time, such as marshes, swamps, and bogs, which can be made by beavers.
What are wetlands?
A word that substitutes for a noun or noun phrase.
What is a pronoun?
Provides the reader with key definitions at the head of a page or section of a book.
What are headings?
To persuade, inform, and entertain, or P.I.E.
What are three purposes of an author?
The main idea of Unit 2.
What is "Animal Classification"?
The classification of humans since they have hair, give live birth, nurse their newborns, and are warm-blooded.
What are mammals?