Prefixes and Suffixes
The prefix that means against.
What is anti?
The Latin root meaning write.
What is script?
A skill where you shorten the story and focus only on the important details to retell the story.
What is summarizing?
Something that compares two things using like or as.
What is a simile?
The part of the story where all of the conflict/ all of the excitement is happening.
What is the climax?
A word that means to make something bright.
What is brighten?
A word that means picture made with a camera.
What is main idea and supporting details?
Giving human qualities to non-human things.
What is personification?
Parts of the text that an author adds to help give you more information.
What are text features?
The prefix meaning wrong.
What is mis?
The Latin root meaning place.
What is loco?
A skill where you pause and take an educated guess on what may happen later in the story based on the details and clues within the story.
What is a prediction?
The beginning letter/sound of each word is the same.
What is alliteration?
Parts of the text that can help you identify what an unknown word means, such as word parts, synonyms, or examples.
What are context clues?
The suffix meaning full of or having the qualities of.
What is ful or out?
The root meaning to carry.
What is port?
A skill where you pause and think about what you may see, hear, taste, smell, or feel if you were a character in the story.
What is visualizing?
What is a metaphor?
A graphic organizer to help you compare and contrast parts of the text.
What is a Venn diagram?
The prefix over.
What is means too much?
The Greek root meaning Earth.
What is Geo?
A skill where you take your prior knowledge and you add it to what the author is stating in the story to gain a deeper understanding of the story.
What is inferencing?
An exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally.
What is a hyperbole?
Something in the passage that can help prove where you got your answer from.
What is text evidence?