Syllable Chop-Shop
This syllable type ends in a vowel, making the vowel sound long, like the first part of ti-ger or go.
What is an open syllable?
This part of the story happens right at the beginning, introducing us to the characters and the setting.
What is the introduction?
When you answer a question about a text by making a bold statement or stating your main argument, you are making a _________.
What is a claim?
This is the main part of a word that holds the core meaning, before you add any extra pieces to the beginning or end.
What is a base word?
The three main types of genres we study are Non-fiction (text that teaches facts), Fiction (text that tells a story), and this creative type of writing.
What is Poetry?
This syllable type features a "bossy" letter changing the vowel sound completely, like the first syllable in gar-den or tur-tle.
What is an R-controlled syllable?
This is the most exciting part, the turning point, or the "big moment" of the entire story.
What is the climax?
To back up your claim, you have to look back into the text or story to find facts, quotes, or specific details. This is called your _________.
What is evidence?
This is a word part added directly to the beginning of a base word to change its meaning, like un- or re-.
What is a prefix?
Instead of being written in normal paragraphs, poems are broken up into groups of lines called _________.
What are stanzas?
Two vowels stick together to make one distinct sound in this syllable type, found in words like boat, rain, or sweet.
What is a vowel team syllable?
While the topic is just 1 or 2 words telling what a text is about (like "sharks"), this tells the big point or the most important message the author wants you to know about that topic.
What is the main idea?
Once you have your claim and your evidence, this final piece connects them together by telling why and how your evidence proves your point.
What is an explanation?
This is a word part added directly to the end of a base word, like -ful, -less, or -ing.
What is a suffix?
This type of meaning tells us word-for-word what is happening.
What is literal meaning?
Look at the multisyllabic word candle. What specific syllable type is the second syllable (-dle)?
What is a consonant-le (-le) syllable?
This stage of the story happens after the big climax, where the excitement starts to wind down and things begin to get sorted out.
What is the falling action?
"The character is very brave because on page 4 it says he climbed the tall tree to rescue the trapped cat." Which part of that sentence is the evidence?
What is "on page 4 it says he climbed the tall tree to rescue the trapped cat"?
Take the word unhelpful. Identify the prefix, the base word, and the suffix.
What are prefix: un-, base word: help, suffix: -ful?
When a poet decides to stop a line of words and jump down to the next row, they are making a _________ _________.
What is a line break?
Write down the multisyllabic word complaining and chop it into its 3 separate syllables.
What is com / plain / ing?
Put these story parts in the correct order from start to finish: Resolution, Rising Action, Introduction, Falling Action, and Climax.
What is Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, and Resolution?
Look at this claim: "The main character is messy." Write a one-sentence piece of imaginary evidence that would perfectly prove this claim.
What is they never clean their room, they litter, etc?
If the prefix pre- means "before", use your morphology clues to explain what it means to prepay.
What is to pay before you get what you want?
True or False: Poets use commas, periods, or sometimes no punctuation at all to tell the reader exactly when to pause, slow down, or catch their breath.
What is True?