GENRE
VOCABULARY
WORD STUDY
Language/
Conventions
Miscellaneous
100

This genre gives factual information about a  topic.

What is Informational Text?

100

This word means a group of animals living in one place.

What is colony?

100

The Latin root meaning "carry."

What is port?

100

An exclamatory sentence asks a question. True or False

What is false?

100

The part of a plot that presents the characters, setting, and problem.

What is the introduction?

200

This genre tells made up stories based on real people, places, or events from the past.

What is Historical Fiction?

200

This word means crossing or overlapping.

What is intersecting?

200

This is a word part added to the ending of a word. It may change the meaning or part of speech of a word.

What is a suffix?

200

One of these words in NOT a common noun.


school       city          Belchertown          desk


What is Belchertown?

200

Authors use text features to organize and clarify information. Give an example of a text feature.

What is a heading, photograph, or map? (answers may vary)

300

This genre includes events and characters that seem real, but are not.

What is Realistic Fiction?

300

This word means the act of moving to a new country to live there.

What is immigration?

300

These 2 suffixes both mean "can be done."

What are -ible and -able.

300

In the active voice, the subject of a sentence performs the action in the sentence.  

               Scientists caught the animals. 

Is this sentence in active voice? True or False

What is TRUE?

300

Name 2 of the 4 purposes for an author to write something. 

What is to entertain, persuade, inform, or to express ideas and feelings?

400

This genre persuades the reader that their opinion is valid.

What is Argumentative Text?

400

This word means to allow; accept; put up with.

What is tolerate?

400

These prefixes tell information about relationships between things. (-il, -in, -im, -ir) The word illegal's meaning is:

What is "not" legal.

400

The name we call words that show location, time, and direction. 


ex: above, before, across

What are prepositions?

400

Name the term we use for words that sound like what they mean: hissing, zipping, or hush.

What is onomatopoeia?

500

This genre is arranged into lines and expresses ideas and feelings.

What is Poetry?

500

This word means to surround or completely cover.

What is encompass?

500

One of these words has an open syllable in its first syllable.   (V/CV)

    even            frigid          popular

One of these words has a closed syllable in its first syllable.   (VC/V)

recording       finish            paper      

        

What is frigid?


What is finish?

500

The name we call the nouns to which pronouns refer. 


Calvin did not have a pet, but his friends did.


What is an antecedent?

500

 Name the text structure of this sentence.

Jackie learned to be a great tennis player because she worked hard at camp.

What is cause and effect?