| A | B |
|---|
| Decoding | Looking for smaller parts in a word to figure out its meaning |
| Prediction | Telling what you THINK will happen before you read |
| Inference | Using information you read and your personal knowledge to tell what you think about a subject |
| Drawing Conclusions | Using information or clues in the text to come to a conclusion about a character or subject |
| Past Tense Verb | An ACTION word that shows that something already happened |
| Phonics | Thinking about the sounds for different letters in a word and blending them together to read it |
| Analogies | Expressing a comarison between words in a sentence (horse is to land as boat is to water) |
| Subject Pronoun | A pronoun used to replace the Subject in a sentence (HE sits on his horse.) |
| Object Pronoun | A pronoun used to replace the OBJECT in a sentence (The boy sits on IT.) |
| Pronoun | A word used to replace a more specific noun (I, he, you, it, they, them, etc.) |
| Direct Quotation | Using the EXACT words a person said in your writing |
| Summarize | Telling what a passage or piece of writing is mostly about, including just the important ideas, events, or points, and NOT details |
| Research Report | A paper that puts together information and data from reliable sources to produce a FACT-BASED story on a topic |
| Bibliography | A list of sources used in writing a report or paper |
| Topic Sentence | Usually the FIRST sentence in a paragraph that communicates the most important point in it |
| Supporting Facts | The sentences that come AFTER the topic sentence in a paragraph that work together to show that the topic sentence is true |
| Proofreading | Checking your paper to correct any capitalization, punctuation, and spelling errors |
| Propaganda | Information or ideas used to influence how others think (or to persuade them to buy something) |
| Overgeneralization | Propagana that makes a BROAD statement without the facts to support it |
| Testimonial | Propaganda that uses the EXACT WORDS of a celebrity to support a product |
| Bandwagon | Propaganda that persuades people to do something because "everyone else is doing it" |
| Transfer | Propaganda that associates a famous person with a product (Tiger Woods/Nike) |
| Faulty Cause and Effect | Propaganda that says your life will somehow be better if you use this product |
| Indirect Quotation | Telling what someone in a story said, without using their EXACT words (NOT in quotation marks) |
| Stressed Syllables | In words with more than one syllable, this is the syllable with the most stress, or EMPHASIS |
| Possessive Pronouns | A pronoun that shows OWNERSHIP (my, your, his, her, our, their, etc.) |
| Contractions with pronouns | A shortened form of two words, including a pronoun (he's, she'll, we're) |
| Making Judgments | Using facts from the reading, as well as your own values and experiences, to 'judge' a character or subject in a reading |
| Story Structure | The characters, plot, and setting that make up the story |
| Foreground | The area in a picture that is closest to the viewer |
| Background | The area in a picture that is farthest away from the viewer |
| Middle ground | The area in a picture that is between the foreground and background |
| Parts of Speech | nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs |
| Double Subjects | When two different subjects (JOHN HE is a cowboy) are used. We DON'T want to do this! |
| Memoir | A story told by a person about one or more events in his/her life |
| First-Person Narrative | A story told from the "first-person" point of view by one of the characters in the story who calls him/herself "I". |
| Digraph | A pair of different consonants that stand for a single sound (ch, sh, th, wh, ph, gh) |
| Word History | The part of a dictionary entry that tells "where" the word came from and what its earlier forms meant |
| Adverb | A word that tells how, when, or where that describes a verb and usually ends with -ly |
