Word Types
Parts of Speech
Reading Skills
Book Types
In the Story
100

Words opposites Hot/Cold

What is Antonym

100
Person, Place, Thing (Bill, School, ball)
What is Noun
100

Using what you know from the text to make a smart guess about what will happen later on in the story.

What is making a prediction

100

A traditional story, especially one concerning the early history of a people or explaining some natural or social phenomenon, and typically involving supernatural beings or events

What is a myth

100
One of the people in a book or story
What is character
200
Same Meaning Pretty/Beautiful
What is Synonym
200
Word that expresses action (run, jump, skip)
What is Verb
200

Drawing a conclusion about a story based on clues in the text and your own background knowledge

What is making an inference

200
Book long enough to be divided into chapters
What is Chapter Book
200
Time and place of a story
What is setting
300
Words that are spelled the same but are different in meaning. gum/gum
What is Homograph
300
Describes the noun or a pronoun That is a TALL tree
What is adjective
300

The general feeling of the reader when reading a piece of literature.

What is Mood

300
Traditional Story, legend, myth, that has been retold by one generation to another
What is Folktale
300
Events in a story, usually with a problem and solution
What is Plot
400
Words that sound the same, but have different meanings and different spelling. Bare/Bear
What is Homophone
400
word used in the place of nouns (I, Him, Them)
What is Pronoun
400

The words, phrases or sentences that come before and after a word that help explain its full meaning.

What is Context Clues

400
The story of someone's life told by someone else
What is Biography
400
The major idea of an entire narrative piece
What is Theme
500

the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

alliteration

500
Word that describes a verb, an adjective, or itself (gently, easy, very)
What is Adverb
500

The way the narrator feels about the events, setting and characters in a story.

What is Tone

500
A story of past events and characters that are partly true and partly imaginary.
What is Historical Fiction
500
First person: Writing about herself/himself (I) Second person: Writing to someone else(you) Third person: Writing about someone else (they,he, she)
What is Point of View
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