A sentence has parts
Tell me a story
Understanding what I read
Build those word skills
Anything goes (but still reading)
100
A person, place, thing or idea.
What is a noun?
100
Something that is written that is not real; a made-up story
What is fiction?
100
When you tell what is the same about 2 or more things
What is comparing?
100
Words that are opposites (ex. Cold and hot)
What is an antonym?
100
A list of words with definitions that is in the back of a textbook
What is a glossary?
200
A word that shows action (for example, "run")
What is a verb?
200
Something written about real people or events
What is non-fiction?
200
When you tell what is different about 2 or more things
What is contrasting?
200
Words that mean almost the same thing (ex.: little and small)
What is a synonym?
200
The following of one thing or another in a certain order
What is a sequence?
300
A word that describes or tells more about something, for example, "big" or "white"
What is an adjective?
300
A book about a person’s life
What is a biography?
300
A guess about what might happen next
What is a prediction?
300
These help you figure out the meaning of a new word by looking at the words nearby
What are context clues?
300
Words that sound the same but have different meanings (ex. See and sea)
What is a homophone?
400
Where and when a story takes place or happens
What is the setting?
400
The most important point of a paragraph or story
What is the main idea?
400
A letter combination placed at the beginning of a root word
What is a prefix?
400
What someone thinks about something
What is an opinion?
500
A word that takes the place of a noun, for example, "he" or "she"
What is a pronoun?
500
People or animals who are in a story
What is a character?
500
When you take longer text and reduce it to its’ bare essentials
What is to summarize?
500
A group of letters that when added to the end of a root word can change its’ meaning
What is a suffix?
500
A phrase that means something from the literal, or real meaning of the words
What is an idiom?
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