Reading is Good For the Soul
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Words, Words, and More Words
Language is the Name of the Game
Text, Not Texting
100
The hero or heroine of a story.
What is protagonist?
100
Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution.
What is plot?
100
A word that means the same, or has a similar meaning to, another word.
What is a synonym?
100
A comparison using like or as.
What is a simile?
100
Words in a non-fiction text that are new words or key words.
What is bold?
200
The people or animals that a story is about.
Who are characters?
200
Statements that support the main idea.
What are details?
200
A word minus the affixes (prefix, suffix). Also know as the base word.
What is a root word?
200
When multiple words in a sentence begin with the same initial sound.
What is alliteration?
200
A short sentence or two telling you what is happening in a picture or diagram.
What is a caption?
300
What happens in order.
What is sequence?
300
The solution to a story's conflict.
What is resolution?
300
An affix added to the end of a root word.
What is a suffix?
300
Old sayings that do NOT translate literally.
What is an idiom?
300
The beginning of a section or chapter is identified by this feature.
What is a heading?
400
Why authors write.
What is to persuade, inform, or entertain?
400
A statement that can be proved true or false.
What is fact?
400
Two or more words that sound the same, but have different spellings and different meanings.
What is a homophone?
400
A sound written in text as it would sound. "pop"
What is onomatopoeia?
400
An image that relates to the text.
What is a photograph?
500
Who, what, where, when, why, how.
What is summarizing?
500
"Reading between the lines" What the author is trying to communicate to the reader without just saying it.
What is inferencing?
500
Two or more words that have the same spelling but different meanings.
What is a homograph?
500
Giving human characteristics to an inhuman thing.
What is personification?
500
This identifies a subset of the main section or chapter.
What is a sub-heading?
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