Vocabulary
What does consult mean?
You look at it to find information
The person or animal who the story is mainly about is the _______ ?
Major Character
What words does the narrator use when the story is written in a first person point of view?
I, we ,me
What does the suffix "-less" mean?
Example: colorless
without
Where and when the story takes place?
Setting
What does drastic mean?
You do something very different from what you have always done
______ _______ help you find out the meaning of a word by reading the sentence it is in.
Context Clues
What words does the narrator use when the story is written in a third person point of view?
he, she, they
What does the suffix "-ful" mean?
Example: wonderful
full of
List three types of figurative language
Simile, Metaphor, Idiom, Hyperbole, Onomatopoeia
What does protested mean?
You did not agree with a statement or an idea
Authors may not tell everything in a text. Sometimes you have to __________ to fill in the wholes.
make inferences
In first person point of view, readers learn about other characters from what they say to the narrator. True or False.
True
What does the prefix "mis-" mean?
"badly", "wrongly", or "opposite or lack of"
What question should readers ask to figure out the theme of a story?
What is the author trying to teach me?
What does pesky mean?
_______ is the main message, lesson, or moral of the text.
Theme
Graphic features are visuals such as _____________. List at least 2.
Illustrations, diagrams, maps, speech bubbles, that help explain ideas in the text
A suffix is a word part added to the beginning of a word. True or False?
False
List 3 stories we have read in ELA
Scaredy Squirrel
Marisol McDonald Doesn't Match
Judy Moody: Mood Martian
Zack Jumps In!
Stink and the Freaky Frog Freakout
What does snarled mean?
twisted and tangled
Why might the author use text features like capital letters for some words in a story?
Example: "OUCH! That hurt."
To emphasize the word or feeling
What are the long vowel teams for 'a'? (3)
ai, ay, ea
List 3 suffixes or prefixes
mis, non, un, ful, less
What is a Simile?
A comparison of two things using "like" or "as"