Grammar
This is the term for the noun that names a particular person, place, or thing.
What is a proper noun?
This is the correct spelling for the homophone that means more than needed or also.
What is too?
These two parts of speech are required to make a complete sentence.
What is a noun and a verb?
These parts of the calendar must be capitalized.
What are days and months?
This punctuation is used at the end of an exclamatory sentence.
What is an explanation mark?
This reference, found at the back of the book, gives definitions of the words in your non-fiction book or text book.
What is a glossary?
This is the term for letters written at a slant.
What is italics?
This is the term for the noun that sentence is about.
What is the subject?
This is the correct spelling for the antonym of brother.
What is s-i-s-t-e-r?
This type of sentence requires some type of response or action.
What is a command, or an imperative?
These special yearly events must be capitalized.
What are holidays?
This punctuation is used at the end of an interrogative.
What is a question mark?
This reference material is useful when planning trips or gathering information about a town, city, state, or country.
What is an atlas?
This is the term for a word written in darker type than the other words on the page.
What is bold?
This is the term for a noun that names only one person, place, or thing.
What is a singular noun?
These two sets of letters next to each other in a word make a long A sound.
What is ai, or ay?
This type of sentence gives information.
What is a declarative?
This is the only pronoun that must always be capitalized.
What is I?
This punctuation is used to show ownership or to create contractions.
What is an apostrophe?
This reference book will help you find synonyms, and sometimes antonyms, of a word.
What is a thesaurus?
This graphic feature explains the symbols on a map.
What is a legend?
This is a word that sounds like another word, but has a different spelling and meaning.
What is a homophone?
These two sets of letters next to one another in a word make a long E sound.
What is ee, or ea?
This type of sentence asks for an answer.
What is an interrogative?
This part of a sentence must always begin with a capital letter.
What is the first word?
This is the meaning of the word, “it’s.”
What is, ”it is?”
This reference material will provide you with the phases of the moon and the best time to plant things.
What is an almanac?
This type of graphic feature can use bars or lines.
What is a graph?
This is the meaning of an “ed,” added to the end of a verb.
What is past tense?
This is how you spell the plural of the word, “dish.”
What is ”dishes?”
This is an incomplete thought.
What is a fragment?
The name of a book must always be capitalized. This is the word that means, “name of a book.”
What is a title?
This is the meaning of the word, “I’m.”
What is, ”I am?”
This reference, found at the front of the book, lists the names of the chapters and the page numbers on which they start.
What is a table of contents?
This type of graphic feature will take you to a website.
What is a hyperlink?
These types of verbs do not follow the rules when changing tenses.
What are irregular verbs?
This is the way to spell the plural form of pony.
What is ponies?
This part of speech must be in the complete subject of a sentence.
What is a noun?
These times of year are not capitalized.
What are the seasons - winter, spring, summer and fall?
This punctuation mark is used to help create a compound sentence.
What is a comma?
This reference, found at the end of the book, tells you what page to find certain words.
What is an index?
This type of graphic feature is a list of dates or times about a person or event.
What is a timeline?
This part of speech describes a noun.
What is an adjective?
This is how to spell the superlative of the word, “big.”
What is “biggest?”
This part of speech cannot be in the complete subject of a sentence.
What is a verb?
This is the capitalization you must use when writing someone’s full name.
What is capitalize the first letter of each of their names - first, middle, and last?
This is what this punctuation mark “ means.
What is dialogue, or someone talking?
This is the order in which most reference materials will be listed.
What is alphabetical?
This type of graphic feature is found in the text, under the main heading. It introduces a new topic.
What is a subheading?
This part of speech can describe a verb, an adjective, or an adverb.
What is an adverb?
In most English words, this letter will be directly after the letter, “Q.”
What is the letter, “U?”
This part of speech must be in the complete predicate.
What is a verb?
This is the capitalization you must use when someone has a title with their name.
What is capitalize the first letter of the title and the first letter of the name or names?
This punctuation mark is used for abbreviations.
What is a period?
These words are found at the top corners of the pages of several types of references and tell the first and last words on the page.
What are guide words?
This type of graphic feature is a drawing or painting.
What is an illustration?
These are three things that a preposition can tell you.
What are time, location, or direction?
The long O sound in words is usually made by these letters being next to one another.
What is oa, or ow?
These four elements are needed to make a compound sentence.
What is a conjunction, a comma, and two complete thoughts?
This is the type of noun that does not require capitalization.
What is a common noun?
This type of punctuation will never be used with a pronoun unless it is to create a contraction.
What is an apostrophe?
This reference book tells the definition, part of speech, number of syllables, and pronunciation of a word.
What is a dictionary?
This graphic feature is an explanation found under, or next to a picture or illustration.
What is a caption?
This part of speech joins clauses or other parts of speech.
What is a conjunction?
Spell the name of a word part that it added to the front or back of a root to change its meaning.
What is affix?
This is the term for two, or more, sentences running together.
What is a run-on?
This is the capitalization rule for the place you live.
What is capitalize the town or city and state?
This is the meaning of the word, “they’re.”
What is, “they are?”
This reference will help you find information on famous people, historical figures, famous places and animals.
What is an encyclopedia?
This graphic feature is a drawing that shows the different parts of something.
What is a diagram?