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| Word that names a person, a place, a thing, or an idea (Bill, office, fun) |
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| Word that expresses action of state of being (run, is) |
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| Word that describes a noun or a pronoun (tall, three) |
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| Word that describes a verb, an adjective, or another adverb (gently, easily, very) |
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| Words used in the place of nouns (I, him, them) |
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| Word that refers to more than one person or thing (shoes, mice) |
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| An ending added to a word to change the meaning. |
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| A beginning added to a word to change the meaning |
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| The title for a paragraph, section, or page |
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| A short description about a picture |
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Alphabetical list of words and meanings found in the back of a book.
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| The words, phrases or sentences that come before and after a word that help explain its full meaning. |
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| Words that are spelled the same but are different in meaning (e.g., gum, gum) |
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| Words that sound the same, but have different meanings and usually different spellings (bare, bear |
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| A word that means the same or almost the same as another word (pretty/lovely) |
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| A word that means the opposite of another word (hot/ cold) |
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| Words that are spelled alike but have different meanings. Reader must use context to determine what meaning the author is using. |
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| The reason the author wrote the passage. |
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third person point of view
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| The author is writing about someone else (they, he, she). |
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| second person point of view |
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| The author is writing to someone else (you) |
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| first person point of view |
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| The author is writing about himself/herself |
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| The way the author sees a situation or the facts. |
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| One of the people in a book or story. |
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| Time and place of a story |
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| Events in a story, usually with a problem and solution. |
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| A shortened version with the main points |
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| The major idea of an entire narrative piece |
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| third person omniscient point of view |
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| The narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all the characters. |
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| third person limited point of view |
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| The narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of only one person |
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| The use of language to create a particular effect or to bring to mind memories or feeling for the reader. |
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| comparing something or someone with words that are not meant to be literal (e.g., Poetry is rainbow words and star bursts.) |
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| A comparison using “like” or “as” (e.g., as white as a sheet) |
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| A poetic sound created by using several words that begin with the same consonant sounds. |
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| A play written for performance |
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| Stories that take place in the future with imaginary science and technology developments |
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| Stories that have magical events and often take place in imaginary worlds |
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| A traditional story about heroes or supernatural beings, often to explain natural events such as the weather |
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| A traditional story, legend, myth, fable that has been retold from one generation to another |
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| The design and size of the typing in a text including bold and italic |
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| A diagram or table that shows detailed information |
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| Showing how things are alike |
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| Showing how things are different |
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| A statement that can be checked to see whether it is true or false |
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| Shows how someone thinks or feels and can’t be proven true or false |
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| Text tells why things happen |
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| Details that give sight, sounds, and smells |
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| The order in which the events happen |
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| Beat or pattern heard when reading poetry aloud |
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| Words that make pictures in your imagination (e.g., metaphors, similes, personification) |
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| Word that shows ownership (Cindy’s dog, boys’ hats) |
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| Words with the same spelling OR sound (live/live AND plain/plane); both homographs and homophones |
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| A story of past events and characters that is partly true and part imaginary |
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| The story of someone’s life told by someone else |
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| A group of words that are grouped together because of common characteristics or meanings |
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| The words, phrases or sentences that come before and after a word that help explain its full meaning |
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| The way something is arranged or organized |
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