Fundations
This digraph is in the word "ship."
What is /sh/?
This part of speech is a person, place, thing, feeling, or idea.
What is a noun?
This word puts two thoughts together in a sentence.
What is and?
This sentence states the main idea of your essay.
What is the topic sentence?
This book is about two men whose first names are the same.
What is George vs. George
What is a homophone?
This part of speech is an action word.
What is a verb?
This word tells the reader why you think what you think.
What is because?
This comes from the text and supports your argument.
What is "evidence"?
In this book, a boy had to survive after a plane crash.
What is Hatchet?
These vowel teams make the long /e/ sound.
What are ee, ea, and ey?
This part of speech describes a noun.
What is an adjective?
These words tell you what time something happened.
What is "when" and "after"?
This sentence explains more about what you think and why.
What is elaboration?
This book was about a boy writing poetry after his dog died.
What is Love That Dog?
This suffix means that it happened in the past.
What is -ed?
This part of speech describes a verb.
What is an adverb?
These words help you say more about what you think.
What is "also" and "because"?
This paragraph comes at the beginning of the essay.
What is an introduction?
In this book, we learned about how blood moves through the body.
What is The Circulatory Story?
These digraphs make an "n" sound.
What are pn, kn, and gn?
This part of speech tells you when or where something is or when and where something happened.
This phrase lets you give an example to support your idea.
What is "for example"?
This sentence is the last sentence of your essay.
We watched a movie based on this story.
What is "All Summer in a Day"?