Monday
To find the subject of a selection where would you look? Name one place.
First sentence, any repeated words or names, read the selection again.
A ____________ is a word made from two words. An apostrophe is put where the letters are left out.
Contraction
The feeling a selection/story gives you.
Mood
Repeating the same consonant sound at the beginning of several words in a sentence.
Alliteration
Venn Diagram
The first word of a title should always begin with what?
A capital letter
Words that have opposite or almost opposite meanings
Words that have the same or almost the same meanings
Antonym
Synonym
Putting together what the author gave you + what you already know.
Making an inference
What the story/passage is mostly about
Main idea
A type of graphic organizer in which you use columns or rows of boxes.
Chart
True or false: The words a, an, and the never have to be capitalized in a title
FALSE
the main part of a word without any prefixes or suffixes
Base or Root Word
This point of view is told by one of the characters in the story.
First Person Point of View
A comparison using two unlike things using the words as or like.
Ex: Tom was as hungry as a bear
Simile
What are the 6 reasons why an author writes (author's purpose)
Entertain, Persuade, Inform, Explain, Teach, Describe
___________ shows the relationship between two things.
BONUS 400 points if you can give an example
Analogy
A group of words or a phrase that has a hidden meaning.
Idiom
The ____________ sentence suggests the focus of the selection
Topic sentence
This type of graphic organizer can be used for fiction and non fiction stories. You connect the character in the big circle with details in the small circles.
Web/Character web
List 3 fiction subgenres
fantasy, folktale/fairytale, fable, realistic fiction, historical fiction, myth, science fiction etc.
What is a homograph?
A word that is spelled the same as another word, but it is pronounced differently and has a different meaning.
An Idiom is what type of language
Figurative
________ means to picture the characters or setting in your mind.
Visualize
This type of graphic organizer shows the connection between two or more events. The first event makes the second event happen
Cause-effect