Types of Words
Types of Stories
Details in Stories
How we Read
Various
100

The opposite of noisy is quiet 

Antonym

100

A story about someone written about someone else

Biography 

100

The order in which the story takes place (breakfast, lunch, dinner)

Sequence

100

"I"  am happy  vs. my "eye" hurts - two words that sound the same but are spelled different and mean different things

Homophone

100

BOOM ! CRASH! WOOSH! 

Onomatopoeia

200

Another word for tired is sleepy

Synonym 

200
Someone wrote a story about themself.

Autobiography

200

What the story is about

Main idea 

200

groups of letters that can be placed before a word to alter its meaning (un-believable)

Prefix

200

Something that is true (Ms. Hilghman is a teacher)

FACT 

300

It's raining cats and dogs!

Idiom 

300

A fake story about a real event

Realistic Fiction 

300

What the author is writing the story for (persuade, inform, entertain)

Author's Purpose

300

The base of a word

Root word

300

Something that you may think (Ms. Hilghman is the best teacher)

Opinion 
400

Ms. Hilghman is an early bird

Metaphor 

400

A fake story - not real

Fiction 

400

The peak of the story - when the big event occurs

Climax

400

An ending added to a word to change its meaning

(unbeliev-able)

Suffix 
400

Two tigers took the train

Alliteration 

500

Ms. Hilghman wakes up early like an early bird!

Simile 
500

A real story - not fake

Nonfiction

500

The end of a story

Conclusion

500

The ocean waved hello - an object acting like a human

Personification 

500

Snowball (snow+ball) Notebook(note+book) are  words that are made of two words

Compound words