Reading Strategies
Elements of Literature
Word Study
Grammar Focus
Spelling/Punctuation/
Capitalization
100
guess using information that you know
What is 'making an inference'?
100
The time and place of a story.
What is 'setting'?
100
A group of letters at the end of the word that can change the meaning
What is a 'suffix'?
100
It can combine two sentences into one compound sentence.
What is a 'conjunction'?
100
The first letter of each mian word in the title of a book, story, or poem
What words should be capitalized?
200
The most important idea in a paragraph or text.
What is 'main idea'?
200
It is used to tell us what the author thinks about the character.
What is 'tone'?
200
usually means 'the study of'
What does the suffix 'ology' mean?
200
This conjunction shows contrast - how things are different.
What is the conjunction 'but'?
200
When a sentence asks a questions
When do you use a question mark?
300
Gives information about the main idea.
What is a 'supporting detail'?
300
A question that needs to be answered
What is a 'problem'?
300
The main part of a word
What is the 'root word'?
300
A part of speech usually used to tell location
What is a 'preposition'?
300
Punctuation marks that a writer uses to show words that are spoken
What are quotation marks?
400
The order of events in a story
What is 'chronological order'?
400
How a person solves the problem or answers the question.
What is a 'resolution'?
400
This suffix means 'without'.
What does the suffix '-less' mean?
400
A preposition followed by a noun or pronoun
What is a 'prepositional phrase'?
400
Two words that are combined and shortened into one word
What is a contraction?
500
Writing that helps readers form images (pictures) in their minds.
What is 'imagery'?
500
A picture in the story that shows what the animals and places looked like.
What is a 'visual'?
500
two words joined together to make one word
What is a 'compound word'?
500
who the sentence is about
What is a 'subject'?
500
The punctuation mark used to join to shorted words ( a contraction)
What is an 'apostrophe'?
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