Play On Words
Gets Me Thinking
Story Elements
Strategies
Testing Terms
100
synonyms
What are words that mean the same?
100
context clues
What is using words and sentences around unknown words to determine their meaning?
100
character
What is who or what that performs action in the story?
100
reread
What is to read again?
100
central idea
What is the main idea?
200
homophones
What are words that sound the same but have different meanings?
200
making inferences
What is using clues from the text and prior knowledge to decide what or why something is happening in the text?
200
setting
What is where and when the story takes place?
200
compare and contrast
What is to tell what is different and what is the same?
200
repetitive
What is to constantly repeat?
300
antonyms
What are words that mean the opposite?
300
cause and effect
What is how you determine why something happens and what caused it?
300
plot
What is what happens?
300
Recalling the main idea and important events of a text
What is summarizing?
300
means the opposite of
What is an antonym?
400
multiple meaning words
What are words that sound the same but have different meanings and sometimes different spellings?
400
theme
What is the moral or lesson of the story?
400
main idea
What is what the story is mainly about?
400
Making decisions about what is happening in a text
What is drawing conclusions?
400
implied
What is the hidden meaning or what is indirectly stated?
500
figurative language
What is painting a picture in someone's mind by writing in a creative way?
500
author's purpose
What is the reason an author writes (to inform, persuade, or entertain)?
500
purpose of
What is why someone or something does something?
500
Organizing a text from what happens first to what happens last
What is sequence of events?
500
according to the passage
What is using information from the text to answer a question?
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