Roots and Affixes
Dictionary, Glossary, and Thesaurus
Texts About the Author
Purposes Across Informational Texts
Context Clues
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What is the basic part of a word called?
Root
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What does a dictionary entry show?
A dictionary entry shows spelling, pronunciation, part of speech, root(s), and meaning(s) or definition(s).
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What is a book an author has written about the life of another person called?
Biography
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What is author's purpose?
Author's purpose is the reason the author wrote the text.
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What is a context clue?
A context clue is a nearby word or a sentence that gives you clues or hints to an unfamiliar word's meaning.
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What is a word part placed before or after a base word called?
Affix
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What does a thesaurus entry show?
A thesaurus entry shows synonyms, useful for improving word choice.
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What is a book an author has written about his or her own life called?
Autobiography
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What are the reasons author's write?
Easy as PIE! Persuade Inform Entertain
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What is a strategy we use when we see an unfamiliar word?
The strategy we use it to underline the sentence with the word, the sentence before, and the sentence after to find clues to the word's meaning.
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What is a word part placed before a base word called?
Prefix
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What does a glossary entry show?
A glossary entry shows a word's meaning as it is used in the book containing the glossary (located at the end of the book).
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What is a text written about a historical part of an author's life called?
Memoir
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What is the purpose of an advertisement of the new Jordan tennis?
Persuade
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What is a multiple meaning word?
A multiple meaning word is a word that has more than one meaning. You have to use context clues to determine the correct meaning.
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What is a word part placed after a base word called?
Suffix
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What would you use to find words to substitute for nice?
You would use a thesaurus to find synonyms for the word nice.
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What is a story of a specific event in the writer's life called?
Personal Narrative
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What is the purpose of an article on obesity which includes facts and statistics?
Inform
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What does the word horrendous mean? The huge unpredicted tsunami had horrendous consequences, unlike last year's smaller tsunami, which resulted in no deaths, caused only three recorded injuries, and damaged just one road.
Horrendous means terrible or dreadful Context Clues:unlike contradicts the consequences of the smaller tsunami, which did not result in terrible consequences
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Identify the affix in the word impolite.
im=means not, opposite, no without polite=means to be nice impolite=means not nice
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This is a dictionary entry for gross. gross 1.disgusting or obscene 2.to make or earn a total amount before subtracting costs. Which definition is being used in the following sentence: Eddy made a gross of $400 dollars working $10 an hour at his full-time job for working 40 hours.
Gross in this sentence means definition 2.
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Fire on Ice is a story about a figure skaters first time in the Olympics. What is this an example of?
Memoir
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What is the purpose of the novel "The Jumping Tree" by Rene Saldana Jr.?
Entertain
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The word gross means whole or disgusting or serious or extreme. Which is the correct meaning in the sentence below? The vegetables looked so gross they made my stomach ache?
Gross in this sentence means disgusting because of the context clues "looked" and "made my stomach ache."
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