Genres
A make-believe or made up story
What is fiction?
Use this reference resource to find the definition or a word
What is a dictionary?
The people, animals, or talking objects who take part in the action of the story
What are characters?
A story written to bring the reader enjoyment
What is entertain?
To use what I know and what the story says to figure out what is happening or how a character is feeling
What is an inference?
Helps the reader to know what something looks like; taken with a camera
What is a photograph?
A word with the same or similar meaning as another word
What is a synonym?
The answer to an addition problem
What is sum?
A three-sided polygon
What is a triangle?
nine-sided polygon
What is a nonagon?
A story with talking animals; teaches a lesson or moral
What is a fable?
Use this reference resource to find synonyms and antonyms for a word
What is a thesaurus?
Where and when a story takes place
What is setting?
A text written to give the reader facts and information about a topic
What is inform?
To prove your answer
What is justify?
Helps the reader to understand what is happening in the illustration or photograph
What is a caption?
A word opposite in meaning to another word
What is an antonym?
The answer to a subtraction problem
What is difference?
365 and 1/4 days
What are the number of days in a year? Or what is one year?
The value of each digit in a number
What is place value?
Writing that is about facts and real events
What is nonfiction?
Definitions of bold words from the text; found in the back of the book
What is a glossary?
Something that goes wrong or needs to be fixed
What is conflict?
A text written to convince the reader to do or buy something
What is persuade?
The ordering of events or steps from first to last
What is sequence?
Breaks text into small sections and helps the reader to understand what the section of text will be about
What is a heading?
Words that sound the same but are spelled differently, like ate and eight
What are homophones?
The answer to a multiplication problem
What is product?
Part of a line that has one endpoint and extends indefinitely in one direction
What is a ray?
A collection of points extending indefinitely in both directions that has no endpoints
What is a line?
The characters and events are made up but could really happen
What is realistic fiction?
Use this reference resource to find more information about a specific topic; topics are in alphabetical order
What is an encyclopedia?
How the problem or conflict is solved
What is solution?
The author uses adjectives or gives a lot of detail about a person, place, situation, or topic
What is describe?
a result, outcome, or final inference based on evidence
What is conclusion?
Helps the reader to identify key topics in the book and the page number each topic is found on; found in the front of the book
What is a table of contents?
A meaningful word part that is attached to the beginning of a root or base word (example: re-)
What is a prefix?
The answer to a division problem
What is quotient?
The path or distance around a plane figure
What is perimeter?
The number of square units needed to cover a surface
What is area?
A true story written about another person’s life
What is a biography?
The first and last word on the dictionary page
What are guide words?
The action in the story
What are events?
A text written about how two or more people or things are alike or different
What is compare and contrast?
To tell the most important events in your own words; include characters, setting, and conflict and resolution
What is summarize?
An alphabetical list of ideas that are in the book and the page number each idea is found on; this list is found in the back of the book
What is an index?
A meaningful word part that is attached to the end of a root or base word (example: -ly)
What is a suffix?
A multiplication model made of rows and columns
What is an array?
A seven-sided polygon
What is a heptagon?
A fraction whose numerator is equal to or greater than the denominator
What is an improper fraction?
A collection of words that express an emotion or idea, sometimes with a specific meaning, sound or rhythm
What is poetry? What is a poem?
Use this reference resource to find more information about a topic on the internet
What is a web page?
The most important problem or the cause of all of the other problems
What is the main conflict?
A lesson or moral can be learned from reading this text
What is to teach a lesson? Or what is theme?
The part of the text used to support your answer
What is evidence? Or what is proof?
Organizes two or more sets of data side-by-side in columns and rows
What is a table or chart?
A part of a word that contains one vowel sound
What is a syllable?
The inverse operation of multiplication
What is division?
The amount of time that has passed between two given times
What is elapsed time?
A number written in two parts, a whole number and a proper fraction
What is a mixed number?