Language features definitions
Language features
examples
Reciprocal reading
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100

The comparison of two or more things through the identifying of similarities. eg: Her smile shines like the stars in the night sky

Simile

100

He is as bright as a button.

Simile

100

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_____________ is a guided teaching strategy where small groups of students improve their reading comprehension by the scaffolded application of Predicting, Clarifying, Questioning, and Summarizing as reading strategies.

Reciprocal teaching

100

Johns dog iS very nicce.

3 changes.
John's dog is very nice.

100

A question that is posed by a writer or speaker that does not require an answer. eg: Have you ever wondered?

Rhetorical question.

200

When you compare two things directly "my love is a flower"

Metaphor

200

Laughter is the best medicine

Metaphor

200
  1. The__________ can offer predictions about what the author will tell the group next or, if it's a literary selection, the __________ might suggest what the next events in the story will be.


Predictor

200

i like Apples two?

4 changes. I like apples too.

200

A punctuation mark used to add an explosive effect at the end of a sentence

Exclamation mark


300

The use of language that leaves the reader with a picture, or image.

Descriptive language

300

My alarm clock yells at me to get out of bed every morning.

Personification

300
  1. The _____________ will then pose questions about the selection:
    • Unclear parts
    • Puzzling information
    • Connections to other concepts already learned

Poses questions for the group to discuss.

Questioner

300

pizza is mine favite food

4 changes.
Pizza is my favourite food.

300

What is '

Apostrophe
400

The mood or atmosphere of a piece of writing

Tone

400

The car went faster than the speed of light.  

Hyperbole

400

The ________ will address confusing parts and attempt to answer the questions that were just posed.

Clarifier

400

sue bought so many things to fill grandmas kitchen cabinets. she bought eggs sugar milk bananas limes and chicken.


8 changes. Sue bought so many things to fill grandma's kitchen cabinets. She bought eggs, sugar, milk, bananas, limes, and chicken.

400

What is ';'

A semicolon. 

500

Words that SOUND like the words they are describing. eg: buzz, hiss, crash, zoom

Onomatopoeia

500

It's a piece of cake

Idiom

500

At the given stopping point, the ___________ will highlight the key ideas up to this point in the reading.

Summarizer.

500

Tim said My niece will be on the same bus as your nephew.


Tim said, "My niece will be on the same bus as your nephew." 

500

The repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning of two or more consecutive words. eg: Kind Kate Kissed Karl

Alliteration

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