READING
The people or animals in a story.
What are characters?
This character loves Edward at the beginning of the story.
Who is Abilene?
This punctuation mark is used at the end of a sentence.
What is a period?
Words that sound the same but have different meanings are called this.
What are homophones?
This suffix means “one who,” as in teacher.
What is -er?
Where and when a story takes place.
What is the setting?
This is how Edward behaves in the beginning of the story.
What is self-centered.
This step of writing is when you check for spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors.
What is editing?
The base word in “unhappiness.”
What is happy?
Question: What is a verb?
Answer: A word that shows action.
Clues in the story that help you understand something not directly stated along with what you know.
What is an inference?
He is called this when he is with Bull and Lucy.
What is Malone?
This is when a writer tells events in the order they happened.
What is chronological order?
The prefix in “rewrite.”
What is re-?
This prefix means “before,” as in preview.
What is pre-?
This feature explains a picture or diagram.
What is a caption?
Pellegrina compares Edward to this.
This is the message or lesson in a story.
What is the theme?
The suffix in “careful.”
What is -ful?
This prefix means “not” or “opposite of,” as in disagree.
What is dis-?
This feature helps you find specific words and the pages they are on.
What is an index?
Edward learns this important lesson by the end of the story.
What is how to love and care about others?
These words (first, next, then, finally) help show order.
What are transition words?
Looking at the rest of the sentence to figure out a word you don’t know is called this.
What is using context clues?
This suffix turns a word into an adverb, like quickly.
What is -ly?