Spelling Rules
The spelling rule for making a word that ends with -y plural. For example: 1 puppy, 2 pupp___.
What is drop the -y, add -ies?
The meaning of sprawled. He sprawled on the grass.
To sit or lay with arms and legs spread out?
Name the 3 story elements.
What are characters, setting, and plot (events)?
A sentence with more than one idea that goes on and on.
What is a run-on sentence?
The affix that means "full of." For example: full of beauty.
What is -ful?
The spelling rule for making a word plural that ends in -s, -z, -x, -ch, -sh (hissing sounds).
What is add -es. (bus --> buses, box --> boxes)?
The meaning of dazed.
The "category" of a book. For example, nonfiction, fiction, and fantasy.
What is genre.
The part of the writing process when an author fixes spelling and punctuation mistakes.
What is editing?
The prefix that means "before." For example, to heat the oven before baking.
What is "pre-"?
The spelling rule for making a word plural that ends in -f or -fe. For example 1 leaf, 2 lea___.
What is drop the -f or -fe and add -ves. (leaf ---> leaves)?
The meaning of stethoscope.
A tool doctors use to listen to someone's heart and lungs.
A story told in the first-person point of view using the pronoun "I".
What is a narrative?
The part of the writing process when an author makes changes to make their writing better, clearer, and more interesting.
What is revision?
The prefix that means "again." For example, to do again.
What is "re-"?
Name the 3 vowel teams that make the long o sound.
What are oa, ow, oe?
The meaning of shallow.
Not deep?
Characters who are not the primary (main) character?
What are secondary characters?
A statement that compares two different things using the words "like" or "as". For example, "Her smile glowed like the sun."
What is a simile?
The affix that means "able to be, capable of." For example: something you are able to wash is...
What is "-able"?
Name the 5 vowel teams that make the long e sound.
What are ea, ei, ee, ey, ie?
The meaning of epilogue.
The comment at the end of a story that ties up loose ends and answers questions the reader may have?
Two characters who are opposites.
What are character foils?
A word used to describe a sound in writing. For example, "Whoosh!"
What is onomatopoeia?
The prefix that means "opposite of, apart, or away." For example: the opposite of agree.
What is "dis-"?