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Power pic words
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30
English
3rd Grade
10/24/2013

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Suffix
Definition
a word part you add to the end of the word and it CHANGES the meaning of the word.
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Prefix
Definition
a word part that you add to the front of the word that CHANGES the meaning of the word.
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Autobiography
Definition
A book about SOMEONE'S LIFE written by that same person. Facts...facts...facts.
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Biography
Definition
A book about SOMEONE'S LIFE written by someone else. facts..facts..facts
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Sensory Details
Definition
When the author uses one or more of the five senses to help you create a mental image or picture in you mind.
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Mental Image
Definition
when you can create a picture or movie in your mind when reading the text.
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Characters
Definition
people, animals, or things in a story.
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Plot
Definition
the actions the character takes to solve the problem.
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Problem
Definition
what is wrong in the story.
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Solution
Definition
how the problem was solved.
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Sammy the LONG summarizer
Definition
A short version of the longer version but it still has the important parts. Beginning, Middle, End, Problem, Solution, Lesson learned or Character change
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Sammy the SHORT summarizer
Definition
What it was mostly about or the main idea
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point of view
Definition
who is telling the story. Is it a character or someone else (the narrator).
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speaker
Definition
who is talking in the story.
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Narrator
Definition
someone who tells the story not a characte
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Adjective
Definition
Describes a noun (person, place, or thing)
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Noun
Definition
Person, Place, Thing
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Verb
Definition
action worrd
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Context Clue
Definition
The words or information around the unknown words that help you figure out the meaning of the word.
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Text Clues
Definition
The clues the author leaves you to help you figure things out.
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Prediction
Definition
When you try to figure out what might happen next in the story based on TEXT EVIDENCE. Make sure it is a solid prediction
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Figurative language
Definition
When the meaning of words goes beyond the literal meaning.
It' raining cats and dogs.
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Infer or inference
Definition
When you use your schema plus text evidence to figure out what the author is saying even though he didn't write it.
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Theme
Definition
The message or the lesson the author's trying to teach you.
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Paragraph
Definition
Indent....new topic or a new speaker.
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Stanza
Definition
A group of lines in a poem.
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Verse
Definition
A group of lines in a poem (another word for stanza).
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Synonym
Definition
2 words that have the same meaning. funny / hilarious
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Antonym
Definition
2 words that have the opposite the meanings. hot / cold
ant....ant....ant
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story elements
Definition
the main parts of a fiction story
settings, character, problem, solution
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