Logic of English
The sounds a letter or combination of letters makes.
What is a phonogram?
What the story is mostly about, the meaning or big picture the author wants us to know.
What is the main idea?
Two words that are different but mean the same thing.
Example:
Hot and warm
Funny and hilarious
What is a synonym?
A complete written thought that ends with some type of punctuation.
Example:
The girl was eating an ice cream cone as she sat and thought about yesterday's party.
What is a sentence?
Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing
What are the 4 language domains we work on in ELL?
A, E, I, O, U and sometimes Y
What is a vowel?
This helps us figure out what the story is mostly about.
How do details help us?
Two words that are different and mean the opposite things.
Examples:
Bumpy and smooth
Tall and short
What is an antonym?
Starts of sentences, proper nouns such as titles, names or months, the letter "I" when it is by itself.
Examples:
I would like to go to the Minnesota Zoo in July with Kim.
When do we capitalize a word in a sentence?
What type of sentence do we use these words with?
who, what, when, where, why, how.
What are the words we can start a question with?
Q must always be with this letter.
Q is always followed by U in English. This is Spelling Rule 11.
What parts of a story are NOT the main idea?
Characters, Setting, Plot, Problem.
We can use the dictionary or context clues in our sentences around the word we don't know.
How can we find the DEFINITION of a word?
. ! or ?
Examples:
I like candy!
She is tired.
What are you doing?
What punctuation can we use to end a sentence?
What words we can use to write a summary?
Somebody, wanted, but, so, then.
This letter says /s/ and /k/
What two sounds does the letter C make?
What is a deeper way to think about the main idea?
The meaning or purpose of a story that an author wants us to think (not just what happened, but what we're supposed to get out of it).
They help us understand what a word means because we have something to compare it to in the sentence.
What are EXAMPLES?
No, it can be one line, or longer or shorter than one line. It can even be multiple lines!
Does a sentence have to end when you get to the end of the line on a piece of paper?
What are these examples of?
Delicious --> Delicioso
Animal --> Animal
Imagination --> Imaginacion
What are Spanish/English cognates?
This letter makes the sounds /j/ or /g/
What sounds does the letter G make?
Why is it important to know how to find the main idea?
This helps us remember stories, share stories, and create stories.
They help us make an educated guess about what the sentence or word could mean.
How do SENTENCES BEFORE AND AFTER or HELPING WORDS help us figure out new words?
Combining two words and replacing one or two letters with an apostrophe (').
Examples:
Can't
Won't
Shouldn't
What is a contraction?
Why do we need to know all this stuff?
Because the ACCESS Test is happening next month and this is your chance to test out of ELL!