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| Repetition of an initial consonant sound across syllables or words (e.g. sleds sliding on snowy slopes) |
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| A comparison of two things that are similar in some way. (e.g. a street light is like a star) |
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| A word that means the opposite of another word (e.g. happy/sad) |
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| The main idea, theme, or lesson the author wants to communicate to the reader |
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| The author's intent: to describe, entertain, inform, persuade, teach a lesson, etc |
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| A history of a person's life written by that person |
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| A word that stands on its own after all prefixes and suffixes have been removed. (e.g. govern in government) |
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| An account of a person's life written by another person. |
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Cause: why something happens
Effect: what happens |
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| A person animal, or imaginary creature in a literary work |
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| A way of organizing text that emphasizes the order in which things happen (through time) |
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| Similarities and differences |
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| A word made from combining words (e.g. riverbank) |
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| The ending of the passage |
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| Activating prior knowledge before, during, or after reading (i.e. text-to-self, text-to text, text-to-world) |
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| a speech sound that is not a vowel |
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| the part of a text that surrounds a word or passage and may help to clarify its meaning |
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| information from text surrounding a word or phrase that helps the reader figure out meaning or pronunciation |
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| writing to describe something, someone, or some place in a way that shows readers, rather than tells |
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| the words spoken by the characters |
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| forming an opinion based on what you already know or on the facts and details in a text |
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| a short article on a single subject written from the author's personal viewpoint |
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| directly stated in the text |
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| writer gives information, explains, defines, or describes something. |
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