Parts of Speech
A person, place, thing, or idea
Noun
This punctuation mark goes at the end of a sentence that asks a question.
Question Mark
This is what a story or paragraph is mostly about.
Main Idea
Words that mean the exact same or nearly the same thing, like big and large.
Synonyms?
Fix this sentence: "the dog barked all night"
The dog barked all night.
An action word, like run, jump, or think.
Verb
This mark is used to separate items in a list or to show a pause in a sentence.
Comma
When you use clues from the story plus what you already know to figure something out, you are making one of these.
Inference
Words that mean the opposite of each other, like hot and cold.
Antonyms
Fix the error in this sentence: "We went to there house for dinner."
Changing "there" to "their"
his part of speech describes or modifies a noun, like blue or tall.
Adjective
You use these double-marks to show the exact words a person is speaking.
Quotation Marks
This is the time and place where a story happens.
Setting
Words that sound the same but have different meanings and spellings, like to, too, and two.
Homophones
Fix the subject-verb agreement error: "The group of students are going on a field trip."
Changing "are" to "is"
Words like he, she, it, and they take the place of nouns and are called this.
Pronoun
This punctuation mark shows ownership, like in the phrase "the dog's bone."
Apostrophe
In literature, this is the main message, lesson, or moral that the author wants the reader to learn.
Theme
A letter or group of letters added to the beginning of a word to change its meaning, like un- in unhappy.
Prefix
Fix this run-on sentence: "I love reading books I go to the library every Friday."
"I love reading books, so I go to the library every Friday." (Accept any correct fix using a period, semicolon, or comma + conjunction).
This part of speech describes how, when, or where an action happens, often ending in "-ly".
Adverb
his mark is used to join two independent clauses (complete thoughts) without using a conjunction like and or but.
Semicolon
This reading strategy involves looking at the words surrounding an unfamiliar word to figure out its meaning.
Context Clues
An exaggeration that shouldn't be taken literally, like "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse."
Hyperbole
Fix the error in this sentence: "She is the most tallest girl in the class."
Changing "most tallest" to "tallest"