Word Study
What do you need to make a word?
vowels
What 2 genres does a book have?
Fiction and Nonfiction
What do readers do before reading a book?
Schema/picture walk
What is a bold word? Describe it.
What is the special name for a, e, i, o, u?
Vowels
What are the two sounds vowels make?
long and short
True or Fals: Nonfiction books teach a lesson, moral, or a message?
False
What should readers do before turning the page?
What does SETTING of a story mean?
Where and when
What do we call the letters that are not vowels?
consonants
What digraph makes the // sound? (quiet)
SH
How can you tell if a book is fiction?
Drawings, story with characters, make believe, animals talking, etc.
What is this bubble called?
Speech bubble
Who is the main character in a story?
Who the story is mostly about
What do we call words that don't make sense?
Silly, nonsense words
What digraph makes the // sound? (train)
CH
What genres teaches about a topic and gives information?
Nonfiction
What is this bubble called?
Thinking bubble
What are the 5 parts of a story?
Characters, setting, beginning, middle, end
What letter can sometimes be a vowel?
Y
What vowel can make a short vowel turn into a long vowel sound?
silent e
What are the two bubbles in fiction called?
Speech and thinking bubbles
What strategy can you use to read a hard word?
Sound it out/use clue words
What are photos, labels, captions, headings, diagrams, called in nonfiction books called?
text features
When two vowels go walking, which vowel does the talking?
The first vowel