Vocabulary Definitions
What word means you take the side of someone?
To Agree!
People in a story
Characters
Verbs that change form in the past tense (run-ran)
Irregular verbs
A person, place, thing, or idea
Noun
Words with the same ending sound
Rhyme
Two words that are formed when two words are placed together to make a new word.
Compound Words
Things that happen to the characters
Events
The sound a vowel makes when it says its own name
Long vowel sound
A word that shows that something belongs to someone or something
Possessive
Where the story takes place
Setting
How the story ends
Coclusion
True information
Fact
How the narrator or a character feels
Point of view
The issue that needs to be solved in a story
Problem
One person, place, thing, or idea
Singular noun
The meaning of a word
Definition
The opening of a letter, usually begins, "Dear____"
Greetings
What the entire story is about
Main Idea
A word that replaces a noun
Pronoun
an affix added to the end of a word; a group of letters added to the end of a word that changes the word's meaning
Suffix
A story that uses animals to teach a lesson called a moral.
Fable
words that stand at the top of a whole text to tell readers the topic
Headings
Text written to inform the reader or explain a topic.
Informative/Explanatory Text
A specific name of a person, place, thing, or idea
Proper noun
A word that has the same or a very similar meaning to another word
Synonym