Vocabulary Development
Literature Comprehension
Poetry
Text Selections
Mechanics
100
The root of the word thoughtful
What is thought
100
A type of text that includes fairy tales, legends, short stories, and novels
What is fiction
100
"Big" and "dig", "can" and "man", "sing" and "ring" are examples of words that
What is rhyme
100
A statement that is always true
What is a fact
100
The action word in a sentence
What is a verb
200
words that mean the same
What is a synonym?
200
A type of text that includes textbooks, encyclopedias, newspapers, and biographies
What is nonfiction
200
Words that sound like what they mean (i.e. giggle, click, zoom)
What is onomatopoeia
200
A comparison of two things that does not use "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor
200
The past tense of going
What is gone?
300
The suffix less-, as in sleepless, means
What is without something
300
The person or people in a story
What are characters
300
Something that is repeated over and over again
What is a repetition
300
When something happens, something else happens as a result
What is cause and effect
300
A word that describes a noun (person, place, or thing)
What is an adjective
400
in- from the word inference.
What is a syllable from the word inference?
400
The where and when of the story
What is the setting
400
how lines are grouped; a group within a poem which may have two or more lines, like paragraphs
What is a stanza
400
A type of text structure that discusses two topics using words like similar, both, however, unlike.
What is compare and contrast?
400
A word that describes a verb (action word) and typically ends in -ly
What is an adverb
500
Words that sound the same but have different meanings and spellings
What are homophones
500
Part of the Story Mountain that describes what the story is about, taking information from the beginning, middle, and end.
What is the plot?
500
A type of poem that uses imagery to express feeling, uses rhythm, regular meter and rhyme.
What is a lyrical poem?
500
This is what a story or passage is mostly about and it helps you understand the passage better.
What is main idea?
500
The adverb in the sentence, "The beautiful horse trotted gracefully across the meadow."
What is gracefully
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