prefixes
A word that means working against gravity.
What is antigravity?
A word that means without care.
What is careless?
This literary element is the message a story wants the reader to take from or learn from a story.
What is theme?
This text structure explains WHY an event happens and the RESULTS of the event.
What is cause and effect?
He heard Jamie’s exasperated sigh and then, surprisingly, the bite of Jamie’s shovel against the snow.
The meaning of the word exasperated.
What is annoyed?
A word that means to take out the water.
What is dehydrate?
A form of the word wood (with a suffix added to it) that means made of wood.
What is wooden?
The time and location of a story.
What is the setting?
This text structure tells how 2 or more events, people, or places are ALIKE/SIMILAR and DIFFERENT.
What is compare and contrast?
“Dad switched off the flashlight, and the night fell over them like a heavy cape.”
The meaning of like a heavy cape.
What is it was very dark?
What is rehydrate?
What is sensible?
If a character is lost in the middle of a snow storm, they are experiencing this type of a conflict.
What is character vs nature?
What are the 2 main ideas: Dolphins are mammals that live in the ocean. They are different than fish. They give birth to live young, but most fish lay eggs. They must come to the surface of the ocean to breathe oxygen. However, fish extract oxygen from the water using gills. Dolphins feed their young milk. In contrast, fish do not care for their young. To sum up, dolphins are mammals, not fish.
Dolphins are mammals.
Dolphins are different than fish.
The statues were passed on to the other ministers and courtiers, but all were baffled. No one could figure out the mystery behind the statues.
The meaning of the word baffled.
What is confused?
A word that means to work or operate together.
What is cooperate?
A word created using a suffix that means to make simple.
What is simplify?
The action and events of a story- everything the characters do.
What is plot?
What supports the idea that Dolphins are mammals?
Dolphins are mammals that live in the ocean. They are different than fish. They give birth to live young, but most fish lay eggs. They must come to the surface of the ocean to breathe oxygen through their lungs. However, fish extract oxygen from the water using gills. Dolphins feed their young milk. In contrast, fish do not care for their young. To sum up, dolphins are mammals, not fish.
They give birth to live young.
They breathe using lungs.
They feed their young milk.
“A loud whistling sound erupted from the woods.”
The meaning of the word erupted.
What is burst, exploded, or happened all of a sudden?
Words that mean to put in a code and take off or figure out a code.
What are encode and decode?
An adjective created using a suffix that means having the nature of reflecting.
What is reflective?
This is the point of view when the narrator is outside of the story and knows ALL of the characters thoughts and feelings.
What is 3rd person omniscient?
What supports the idea that mammals are different than fish?Dolphins are mammals that live in the ocean. They are different than fish. They give birth to live young, but most fish lay eggs. They must come to the surface of the ocean to breathe oxygen through their lungs. However, fish extract oxygen from the water using gills. Dolphins feed their young milk. In contrast, fish do not care for their young. To sum up, dolphins are mammals, not fish.
Mammals give live birth, but fish lay eggs.
Mammals breathe through lungs, but fish use gills.
Mammals feed young milk, but fish do not care for their young.
If Jimmy is insecure you would never know it, he seldomly shows it.
Another word for seldomly.
What is rarely?