Informational
This is what you must use from the text to prove your answer is correct.
text evidence
These are the people, animals, or creatures in a story.
characters
This prefix means “not” or “the opposite of,” as in unhappy.
un-
This part of a sentence tells who or what the sentence is about.
subject
This part of speech names a person, place, thing, or idea.
noun
This strategy helps you figure out the meaning of an unknown word by looking at the words and sentences around it.
context clues
This is the proof from the story that helps support your answer.
text evidence
This suffix means “full of,” as in hopeful or joyful.
-ful
This type of sentence has a subject and a predicate and expresses a complete thought.
complete sentence
This part of speech shows action or a state of being.
verb
This tells what the whole text is mostly about and is supported by key details.
main idea
This is the lesson or message the author wants readers to learn from the story.
theme
This Latin root means “to carry,” and is found in words like transport and portable.
port
This type of sentence asks something and ends with a question mark.
interrogative sentence
This part of speech describes a noun and answers questions like “What kind?” or “How many?”
adjective
This text structure explains why something happened and what happened as a result.
cause and effect
This strategy helps readers determine the meaning of a word by looking at how it is used in the sentence and paragraph.
context clues
If you break apart the word preview, this prefix tells that something happens before.
pre-
This type of sentence joins two independent clauses with a comma and a conjunction like and, but, or so.
compound sentence
In the sentence, “She quickly finished her homework,” this part of speech describes how she finished.
adverb
This is what you must evaluate to decide whether the author’s argument is strong and believable.
reasons and evidence the author gives to support their points
This tells whether the story is being told by a character inside the story or by a narrator outside of it.
point of view
In the word disagreement, these are the three morphemes you would identify.
dis-, agree, and -ment
In the sentence, “Although it was raining, we went outside,” this is the type of clause that begins with although.
dependent (subordinate) clause
In the sentence, “The excited students eagerly entered the bright classroom,” these four different parts of speech are used to describe or show action.
adjectives (excited, bright), a noun (students/classroom), an adverb (eagerly), and a verb (entered)