Word Detective (Vocabulary)
This word means the opposite of another word.
What is an Antonym?
This is the "big lesson" or moral of a story.
What is the Theme?
This text feature is a short description under a photograph.
What is a Caption?
This type of noun always starts with a capital letter, like "Missouri."
What is a Proper Noun?
This is the first sentence of a paragraph that tells what it's about.
What is a Topic Sentence?
This is the root word of "unhappiness."
What is Happy?
This person is the one telling the story.
Who is the Narrator?
This text structure explains why something happened and what happened next.
What is Cause and Effect?
These two words make up the contraction don't.
What are Do not?
Words like "First," "Next," and "Finally."
What are Transition Words?
This idiom means "it is very easy.
What is A piece of cake?
A character trait for someone who shares their toys and helps others.
What is Generous or Kind?
An author writes a textbook to do this (one of the 3 purposes).
What is to Inform
The part of speech that describes an action, like run or jump.
What is a Verb?
"Blue is the prettiest color."
Is this a Fact or an Opinion?
These are words that sound the same but are spelled differently, like won and one.
What are Homophones?
The most exciting part or "turning point" of a story.
What is the Climax?
You look here to find the definition of a word in a specific book.
What is the Glossary?
You use this punctuation mark to show someone is speaking.
What are Quotation Marks?
To retell just the most important parts of a story in your own words.
What is to Summarize?
Use context clues: "The fragile ornament broke into tiny pieces when it hit the floor.
What does easily broken mean?
When you use clues from the book + what you already know to figure something out.
What is an Inference?
This is the main point the author is trying to make in a paragraph.
What is the Main Idea?
"The dogs bark at the mailman." Is this correct subject-verb agreement?
No—it should be "The dogs bark" or "The dog barks."
You use this to find which page a specific topic is on at the back of a book.
What is the Index?