Reading
A word part that includes both prefixes and suffixes.
A word opposite in meaning to another word.
What is an antonym?
A genre in writing that is short and gives lots of information usually found in magazines, newspapers, or online sites.
What is an article?
Charts, graphs, diagrams, and tables.
What are some nonfiction text features/
Connect your paragraphs, ideas in your writing piece, make your writing clearer.
What are transition words or phrases?
A relationship between actions or events in which at least one action or event is a direct result of the others.
What is cause and effect?
What is capitalization?
Another name for a reader of something an author writes.
What is an audience?
A word that starts with a letter D that means to discover, find out exactly, or decide
What is determine?
A short piece of writing on a particular subject
What is an essay?
Central ideas are part of which genre of writing- nonfiction or fiction?
What is nonfiction?
(Main ideas are in fiction writing.)
The basic word without a prefix or suffix.
What is the root word?
It's what the author thinks about the subject.
What is author's point of view?
Develop ideas in writing
What is giving evidence of an idea or to explain more clearly?
A group of related sentences
What is a paragraph?
Reaching a conclusion about something with facts or what you already know
What is inference?
What are adjectives and adverbs?
It's the lesson, moral, or main point an author is trying to communicate.
What is the author's message?
When characters are speaking in a story.
What is dialogue?
Text features that tell a reader what nonfiction writing or a section of writing is about
What are headings and subheadings?
The events that make up a story- the beginning, middle, end, problem, and solution.
What is the plot?
Not grammar- reading!
Good versus evil, love, redemption, courage, perseverance, coming of age (growing up), revenge.
What are examples of themes?
Restate main point, summarize your article, restate your opinion in a different way.
What are ways to write a conclusion?
Plan, draft, reread, correct/edit, check for all parts of the directions.
What is to write a grade level paper?
The beginning section of writing that tells your reader what your piece is going to be about.
What is an introduction in writing?