Reading 1
What is a prefix?
Letters (syllables) added to the beginning of a word to create a new word.
What is a noun?
A person, place, or thing
What is setting?
The time and place the story takes place
Something that does not change; something known to be true.
What is a fact?
A story that is not real, the story is made up.
What is fiction?
"The cloud is fluffy cotton candy" is an example of what figurative language term?
Metaphor
What is a suffix?
Letters (syllables) added to the end of a root word that changes the meaning of the word.
An action word.
What is a verb?
When characters in a story are talking.
What is dialogue?
Fact or opinion?
The beach is way more fun than the pool.
What is an opinion?
What does the prefix un mean?
not
When you include details from the text what do you have to include with it?
Quotation marks
A word that has the same meaning as another word.
What is a synonym?
What is an adjective?
Describes a person, place, or thing
Where would you find a stanza?
In a poem
Summarizing Strategies
Beginning, middle, end.
Somebody, wanted, but, so, then.
A story that is written to give facts and information.
What is an informational text?
What should you do if you are asked about paragraphs 2-6?
Reread those paragraphs!!jective?
A prefix that means not
What is un-
What is an inference?
Information from the text + what you already know
How do you answer a short response question?
R A C E
What can you look at to find the main topic of a text?
Title, headings, bolded words, pictures, captions, graphs
"Your smile is as bright as the sun" is an example of what figurative language?
Simile
Chirp, chirp, cheep went the birds is an example of what?
Onomatopoeia
What is an antonym?
A words that means the opposite of another word.
What should you do if you are asked about paragraphs 2-6?
Reread those paragraphs!!
The lesson or moral found in a story.
What is a theme?
To find the differences and similarities of two stories.
What is comparing and contrasting
What to do if you don't know the meaning of a word
1. Use the dictionary
2. Use context clues, around the word, in the sentence, in the paragraph
For almost every question you should always....
Go back to the text.