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| a punctuation mark used in words to show missing letters in a contraction or to show ownership in a possessive |
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| an author's reason for writing, usually to entertain, inform, or persuade |
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| the use of uppercase letters at the beginning of sentences, with proper nouns, and with the word "I" |
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| the words beneath a graphic that describe what the graphic shows |
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| the reason something happens |
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| the people, animals, or object a story is about |
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| a graphic organizer that is broken up into columns and rows, with headings that tell you what information is in each column and row |
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| a punctuation mark used to separate items in a list or separate groups of words in a sentence |
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| to show how two or more things are alike |
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| a sentence made up with one complete thought with both a subject and a predicate |
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| two or more words combined to make a bigger word |
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| a conclusion readers make about an entire text based on details, inferences, and what they already know |
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| the main problem of the story |
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| the words or sentences around a new word that help the reader understand its meaning |
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| a word that is made up of two other words, using an apostrophe to replace missing letters |
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| to show how two or more things are different |
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| a piece of information that tells about the main idea |
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| a list of steps the reader should follow in order to complete a task |
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| what happens as a result of a cause |
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| a statement that stretches the truth in order to make a point |
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| a statement that is always true and can be proven to be true |
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| a visual representation that helps you picture, arrange, and think about information |
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| pictures, drawings, and other visuals that go along with a text |
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| a short title that tells the reader what a section of the book is about |
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| words that sound the same but have different meanings |
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| an alphabetical list of important topics from the book and the page where each topic appears. It is found at the back of the book |
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| a guess a reader makes about a text, bases on the text's details and what the reader already knows |
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| main words about your topic that you can use to find information in a text |
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| what a passage is mostly about |
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| a personal belief that cannot be proven |
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| that parts of a text that help readers better understand what they are reading and find information quickly |
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| the part of the sentence that tells what the subject is doing by using a verb |
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| a guess about what will happen later in a passage, based on what you already know and what you have read |
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| the name of a specific person, place, or thing (must be capitalized) |
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| marks used to make sentences clearer for the reader |
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| punctuation marks that show speech |
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| he part of the plot that shows how characters try to solve the conflict |
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| two or more sentence parts combined without prober punctuation |
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| using sentences of different length that begin in different ways to make writing more interesting |
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| the order in which events happen |
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| a graphic organizer that shows how one event leads to another |
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| the time and place a story happens |
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| a smaller heading title that tells the reader more detailed information about hat a section of text is about |
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| the person, place , or thing that performs the action in a sentence |
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| the correct use of singular subjects with singular verbs, and plural subjects with plural verbs |
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| to retell the main idea and most important details of the passage |
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| a list of chapters and page number where each chapter begins, found in the front of the book |
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| a sentence that tells you the main idea of a paragraph, usually found at the beginning of the paragraph |
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| a quality of a character that makes him or her unique |
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| words or phrases that link one idea to another, such as however, next, finally, therefore and on the other hand |
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| a graphic organizer that uses overlapping circles to compare and contrast two different things |
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| how a passage sounds to a reader, based on the author's personal style of writing |
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| a kind of graphic organizer with a topic or main idea in the center and related information around it |
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| the words a writer uses to express ideas in a way the audience can understand |
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