Vocabulary Strategies
What are Antonyms and Synonyms?
Synonyms are two words that have the same meaning.
Antonyms are two words that have opposite meanings.
What is the main idea and key details of a text?
The main idea is the most important idea or point that an author makes in a paragraph or text. Key details give important information to support the main idea.
To change something.
What is an Expository Text?
What is Denotation and Connotation?
Denotation is the literal meaning of a word from the dictionary.
Connotation is the feeling or idea connected to a particular word in a text.
What is the Theme of a passage?
The theme is the overall message or lesson from a text.
What is "unpredictable"?
When something is not predictable.
What is a Realistic Fiction?
Realistic Fiction is a made-up story that has characters, settings, and events that could happen in real life.
Give an example of a word that includes a Latin Prefix.
preview
What is the Point of View of an author or narrator?
The narrator's or author's point of view tells how the narrator thinks or feels about characters or events in the story.
What is "scattered"?
To put things around a space in a messy way.
What is Historical Fiction?
Historical Fiction takes place in the past and includes realistic characters, events, and settings.
You are my sunshine.
Your ocean blue eyes.
What is "concerns"?
Things that someone worries about.
Give 5 examples of Text Features.
Diagrams
Headings
Charts
Sidebars
Photographs
True or False?
You are as sweet as a candy.
This phrase is an example of a Metaphor.
False
Give an example of the sequence of a story.
First
Next
Then
Last
What is "endurance"?
To have the strength to handle a situation.
Tell the name and type of text of one of the stories we read throughout the school year.
Various answers.