GENRE
This genre gives factual information about a topic.
What is Informational Text?
This word means a group of animals living in one place.
What is colony?
The Latin root meaning "carry."
What is port?
An exclamatory sentence asks a question. True or False
What is false?
The part of a plot that presents the characters, setting, and problem.
What is the introduction?
This genre tells made up stories based on real people, places, or events from the past.
What is Historical Fiction?
This word means crossing or overlapping.
What is intersecting?
This is a word part added to the ending of a word. It may change the meaning or part of speech of a word.
What is a suffix?
One of these words in NOT a common noun.
school city Belchertown desk
What is Belchertown?
Authors use text features to organize and clarify information. Give an example of a text feature.
What is a heading, photograph, or map? (answers may vary)
This genre includes events and characters that seem real, but are not.
What is Realistic Fiction?
This word means the act of moving to a new country to live there.
What is immigration?
These 2 suffixes both mean "can be done."
What are -ible and -able.
In the active voice, the subject of a sentence performs the action in the sentence.
Scientists caught the animals.
Is this sentence in active voice? True or False
What is TRUE?
Name 2 of the 4 purposes for an author to write something.
What is to entertain, persuade, inform, or to express ideas and feelings?
This genre persuades the reader that their opinion is valid.
What is Argumentative Text?
This word means to allow; accept; put up with.
What is tolerate?
These prefixes tell information about relationships between things. (-il, -in, -im, -ir) The word illegal's meaning is:
What is "not" legal.
The name we call words that show location, time, and direction.
ex: above, before, across
What are prepositions?
Name the term we use for words that sound like what they mean: hissing, zipping, or hush.
What is onomatopoeia?
This genre is arranged into lines and expresses ideas and feelings.
What is Poetry?
This word means to surround or completely cover.
What is encompass?
One of these words has an open syllable in its first syllable. (V/CV)
even frigid popular
One of these words has a closed syllable in its first syllable. (VC/V)
recording finish paper
What is frigid?
What is finish?
The name we call the nouns to which pronouns refer.
Calvin did not have a pet, but his friends did.
What is an antecedent?
Name the text structure of this sentence.
Jackie learned to be a great tennis player because she worked hard at camp.
What is cause and effect?