Vocabulary (Context & Word Parts)
These are words that have the same or similar meanings, like "happy" and "joyful."
What are synonyms?
This text feature is found at the top of a page or section and tells you what you are about to read.
What is a heading/section title?
This is the lesson or "big idea" the character learns at the end of a story.
What is the theme?
Every sentence must begin with this type of letter.
What is a capital letter?
This is when you tell the most important parts of a story in your own words, including the beginning, middle, and end.
What is a summary?
Use this "clue" found in the sentence to figure out the meaning of a word you don't know.
What is a context clue?
This is the most important message the author wants you to know about a topic.
What is the central idea?
In a play (drama), these are the words in parentheses that tell the actors how to move or speak.
What are stage directions?
This punctuation mark is used at the end of a sentence that asks something.
What is a question mark?
When you use what you know + what the book says to make a "draw a conclusion."
What is an inference?
This is the part of the word added to the beginning of a root word to change its meaning.
What is a prefix?
This text feature is a drawing or photo with labels pointing to its parts.
What is a diagram?
This is the "problem" that the main character faces in the plot.
What is the conflict?
Words like "and," "but," and "or" are used to join two short sentences into one.
What are conjunctions?
A story told from the perspective of "I" or "me" is told in this point of view.
What is first-person?
If a word has the suffix -less, it means the word is "without" something. Name a word with this suffix.
What is hopeless/careless/etc.?
An author writes a "How-To" article about baking a cake. This is the Author's Purpose.
What is to inform/explain?
When an author uses words like "boom" or "hiss" to mimic a sound.
What is onomatopoeia?
To make a sentence "flow" better or add more detail, you are doing this step of the writing process.
What is revising?
This text feature is a list of chapters and page numbers found at the front of a book.
What is the Table of Contents?
Use a dictionary or glossary to find this: the specific way a word is used in a passage.
What is the definition?
These are the specific facts or examples that prove the central idea is true.
What are supporting details?
This is a group of lines in a poem, similar to a paragraph in a story.
What is a stanza?
This is the part of speech that describes a noun (e.g., the blue sky)
What is an adjective?
This term describes how an author organizes a text by showing how things are alike and different.
What is compare and contrast?