Reading
Non-fiction books use this section at the very back to help you find specific page numbers for certain topics.
Index
These are words used to describe a noun, such as sparkly, huge, or blue.
Adjectives
To make the word "fox" plural (more than one), you must add these two letters to the end.
-es
One is a fruit that grows on a tree; the other is a set of two things.
Pear and Pair
This term refers to the lesson or what the author wants you to learn from a story
message
This type of word takes the place of a noun, such as he, she, it, or they.
Pronoun
babies
Editing
One means you used your eyes to look at something; the other is a body of salt water.
see and sea
Words like first, next, then, and finally are these types of words, used to show the order of events.
transition words
What two letters are common to be at the end of an adverb?
-ly
This prefix means to do again
re
These marks are used to show exactly what a character is saying out loud.
Quotation Marks
One is the number after seven; the other is what you did to your dinner last night.
eight and ate
This is the central point the author is making in a non fiction paragraph or piece; it's what the text is "mostly about."
This type of noun always starts with a capital letter because it names something specific
Proper Noun
This suffix means full of
-ful
When you join two short sentences together using a comma and a word like and, but, or or, you create this type of sentence.
One you grow in your garden and the other you use to bake cakes
flower and flour
text evidence
What is the short way of writing two words as one using an apostrophe, like "don't" or "can't" called?
A contraction
This is a word that means the same or nearly the same as another word
Synonym
This type of writing tells a story about a real or made-up even
Narrative
one may be your favorite color and the other is what the wind did to the leaves on your tree
blue and blew