This is a word that can stand alone and has meaning. A longer word can be made from this.
What is a base word?
100
This is what a passage is mostly about. It is found either at the beginning or end of a paragraph.
What is the main idea?
100
This is the reason why something happens.
What is the cause?
100
This type of fiction are short stories that have a lesson, usually with animals as characters.
What is a fable?
100
This compares two things by using the words like or as.
What is a simile?
200
This is added at the start of a base word. Examples include non-, over-, and tri-.
What is a prefix?
200
This is information that backs up and builds on the main idea of a story or article. By themselves they do not tell what the story or article is about.
What is a detail?
200
The is what happens as a result of a cause.
What is the effect?
200
This type of non-fiction is the story of a person's life.
What is a biography?
200
This gives nonhumans human traits and behaviors.
What is personification?
300
This is added to the end of a base word. Examples of this include -able, -ible, -al, and -ance.
What is a suffix?
300
To group items together based on what they have in common is to do this
What is classifying?
300
This is a statement that can be proven true or false.
What is a fact?
300
This is something that makes a character unique.
Examples include strong, wise, handy, quick, weak, silly, courageous, slow, friendly, and quiet
What is a trait?
300
This is the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
For example, Neil knew not to play with knives.
What is alliteration?
400
This is a word or a group of words around an unknown word that help a reader understand its meaning.
What is a context clue?
400
Putting items or events in a certain order is doing this:
What is sequencing?
400
This is a belief.
What is an opinion?
400
This point of view is from a narrator. It uses the pronouns he, she, his, her, they, and them.
What is the third-person point-of-view?
400
This describes words that sound like what they describe.
Examples include click, buzz, hoot, clang, bang, and hiss.
What is onomatopoeia?
500
This is a phrase that is not meant to be taken seriously. They may be specific to a region or culture. Examples include "It's raining cats and dogs.", "I can see the light.", and "She can open doors with her smile."
What is an idiom?
500
This is an educated guess based on the text and the reader's prior knowledge.
What is an inference?
500
This is a part of an informational or literary text that helps readers better understand what they are reading.
Examples include table of contents, heading, subheading, appendix, glossary, and index.
What are text features?
500
This point-of-view is part of the passage. It uses the pronouns I and me
What is the first person point-of-view?
500
This is the pattern of rhyming words at the end of two or more lines in a stanza in a poem.
Example: aabb aabb aabb