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Figurative Language
Nonfiction
Building Vocabulary
Works of fiction
Research
100
Joking James jumps over jumbo jeaps.
What is alliteration?
100
This is a part of a book that is located in the back and lists words that are found in the book and the page numbers.
What is an index?
100
Two words that have the same meaning. Example: big/huge
What are synonyms?
100
These are stories that are told by word of mouth and have no known author.
What are folktales?
100
This print source is used to give definitions of words, the part of speech, and has guide words at the top of the page.
What is a dictionary?
200
Jill is as sweet as candy.
What is a simile?
200
This part of a nonfiction book lists the chaper titles and the page numbers of the chapters.
What is a table of contents?
200
These are two words that are put together to make new words. Example: home + work= homework
What are compound words?
200
This is a story about a person's life written by someone else.
What are biographies?
200
This is used when you are wanting to know more about a topic. This reference source has facts about people, places, and events.
What is an encyclopedia?
300
The wind sang softly through the night air.
What is personification?
300
This is located under the heading in a nonfiction passage and it's prefix means under.
What is a subheading?
300
These are words that sound the same,but they are spelled differently and have different meanings. Example: sun / son
What are homonyms?
300
These are stories that have exaggeration and are not true. Paul Bunyan is an example of this type of fictional stories.
What are tall tales?
300
This reference source is used to find directions from place to place. This is a book of maps.
What is an atlas?
400
Tommy is so tall, his head touches the clouds.
What is a hyperbole?
400
This tells what is happening in a photograph or illustration. It is usually located under the picture.
What is a caption?
400
These are words that have the opposite meaning. Example: big / small
What are antonyms?
400
This story has a moral and teaches a lesson.
What are fables?
400
This is used when you are wanting to find a synonym of a word. This reference source has some antonyms.
What is a thesaurus?
500
It's raining cats and dogs outside.
What is an idiom?
500
This tells what someone thinks or feels about a topic. Words like I think, I feel, I love... are exapmles of this.
What is an opinion?
500
These come before the base word. They change the meaing of the word. Example: rewrite, untie, misspelled, dislike, preheat
What are prefixes?
500
This type of fictional story has figures from the past or the setting is from past events.
What is historical fiction?
500
This is used to look up information about any topic and has lots of web-sites.
What is the internet?