| A | B |
|---|
| irrelevant | not necessary |
| Author's purpose | Why did the writer write the story? |
| non-fiction | a story based on true events |
| short story | a story of only a few pages, not a book |
| event | something that happens, like a birthday party or an election |
| drama | a play acted out by live people |
| suffix | For example when -ed or -ing is added to the end of a word |
| root word | a word from which other words are made (root: slow; adv: slowly) |
| synonym | a word meaning the same as an other word |
| context clues | words (clues) written around a word from wich you can understand the meaning of this word |
| pronoun | a word that takes the place of a noun |
| main idea | the most important idea of the story |
| to view | to look at or to think about |
| biography | a person's life story written by someone else |
| autobiography | a person's life story written by himself |
| purpose | reason |
| supporting detail | additional information to help you understand or believe something |
| usual | the same every time |
