Grammar
This type of word describes an action or occurrence and can be used in the present, past, or future tense.
What is a verb?
This type of sentence makes a statement or provides information.
What is a declarative sentence?
This is when you use the words, phrases, or sentences around an unknown word to understand its meaning.
What is context clues?
This is a strategy you can use on a reading test that helps you to know what to look for before you read a passage.
What is read the questions first?
A character in a story who changes over time.
What is dynamic?
This type of word is used to join two or more words, phrases, or clauses.
What is a conjunction?
This type of sentence asks a question.
What is an interrogative sentence?
This is the first part of the word that helps you understand the meaning of a word.
What is a prefix?
This is when you imagine pictures in your mind as you read a passage.
What is visualization?
The word that shows the action in a sentence.
What is a verb?
This type of word takes the place of a noun or noun phrase in a sentence.
What is a pronoun?
This type of sentence gives a command or direction.
What is an imperative sentence?
This is the end of a word that helps you understand what the whole word means.
What is a suffix?
These are the items in a passage that are not words but help us with the meaning of the text.
What are pictures or charts or graphs?
The sentence that is made up of one one independent clause and at least one dependent clause.
What is a complex sentence?
This type of word is used to describe or modify a noun or pronoun in a sentence.
What is an adjective?
This type of sentence expresses strong feeling or emotion, often punctuated with an exclamation mark.
What is an exclamatory sentence?
This is the main part of a word that tells the meaning.
What is the root?
This is when you can imagine what will happen later in the story based on clues you read now.
What is predicting?
The type of story about someone's life written by someone else.
What is an autobiography?
This type of word is used to express strong emotions or feelings and is often set apart by an exclamation point.
What is an interjection?
This type of sentence combines two or more independent clauses with a coordinating conjunction.
What is a compound sentence?
This is how a word is used in a sentence that can help you know what the word means.
What is part of speech?
This is when an author gives us a part of the story that happened in the past.
What is flashback?
What is nonfiction?