Reading A
The bird was perched on a branch.
What does perched mean?
What is sitting?
This part of a word is added to the beginning to change the meaning.
What is a prefix?
This part of a word is added to the end of a base word to change the meaning.
What is a suffix?
The reasons why an author writes a story
What is the author's purpose?
The words under a picture or image that describe it
What is a caption?
A result of an event that happened
What is the effect?
A comparison of two unlike things using like or as
What is a simile?
What a paragraph or story is mostly about
what is the main idea
The problem or struggle in a story
What is the conflict?
This word takes the place of a noun
What is a pronoun?
The person who writes a book
Who is an author?
A person who draws pictures in a book
Who is an illustrator?
information you can prove
What is fact
This word names a person, place or thing
What is a noun?
This word states the being of a noun
What is a verb?
Where one can find synonyms and antonyms of a word
What is the thesaurus?
Sound words, such as crash, bang, boom
What is onomatopoeia?
A sentence that all words start with the same letter
What is an alliteration?
These sentences are specific and describe big ideas.
What are supporting details?
This word modifies or describes a verb.
What is an adverb?
Words that have the same meaning as other words
What are synonyms?
words that mean the opposite
What are antonyms
Where and/or when a story takes place
What is the setting?
The speaker or person telling the story
Who is the narrator?
The events in a story
What is the plot?