Vocabulary
A person, place, or thing
What is a common noun
Something you can prove to be true
What is a fact?
The story, poem, article. Anything you are to read.
What is the selection?
A special person, place or thing
What is a proper noun
A word that means the opposite
What is an antonym?
A word that means the same or almost the same
What is a synonym?
Letters added to the end of a word that changes its' meaning
What is a suffix?
Something you think or believe
What is an opinion?
The part of the sentence that tells us who or what the sentence is about
What is the subject?
Where and when the story takes place.
What is the setting?
The part of the sentence that tells us what the subject does or is
What is the predicate?
The correct order of a story or events
What is sequence?
The "why" something happens
What is cause?
Additional information about a subject; these answer the who, what, when, where, why and which questions.
What are details?
What happens
What is the effect? (t) what
Finding out how two things are alike.
What is compare?
A story that takes place a long time ago, and has imaginary characters and settings.
What is a fairy tale?
Letters added to the beginning of a word that changes its' meaning
What is a prefix?
Different types of literature
What is the genre?
Words used to describe a character's personality
What are characteristics?
The lesson to be learned in a story
What is the moral?
These tell what each section is about.
What are headings/subheadings?
This gives the meanings of important words in the selection.
What is a glossary?
This lists the topics found in a book in alphabetical order.
What is an index?
A story based on the customs and traditions of a people, region, handed down orally from one generation to the next.
What is a folktale?