| A | B |
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| Listeners and speakers should: | make eye contact |
| Inferences | conclusions, opinions, predictions |
| Text to Text, Text to Self, Text to World | kinds of connections a reader makes while reading |
| Main Idea | Topic or Theme of the Text |
| Possessives | show ownership |
| Facts | Details that can be proven accurate |
| Opinions | Feelings - no proof of accuracy |
| Allusion | In Animal Farm, the leader of the animals is a monarchic pig name Napoleon. |
| Alliteration | Lusious lemon lollipops |
| Generalizations | All movies are boring |
| Hyperbole | The building was a million stories high. |
| Imagery | ("A bed supported on massive pillars of mahogany, hung with curtains of deep red cloth . . ." Jane Eyre |
| Irony | In Home Alone Kevin was able to thwart two robbers. Viewers would expect the opposite to happen |
| Metaphor | The clouds were cotton puffs floating in the sky |
| Personification | Flowers danced on the lawn. |
| Satire | In Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift ridicules the absurd manners and traditions of the British |
| Simile | I wandered lonely as a cloud |
| Antonyms | a word that is the opposite of another |
| Autobiography | The story of a person's life written by himself or herself. |
| Biography | The story of a person's life written by someone other than the subject of the work. |
| Characterization | The method an author uses to reveal characters and their various personalities. |
| Climax | The turning point in a narrative |
| Compare | Placing together characters or ideas to show common or differing features |
| Conflict/Problem | A struggle or clash between opposing characters |
| Context Clues | Information from the reading that identifies a word or group of words. |
| Contrast | to analyze differences |
| Fiction | any story that is the product of imagination |
| Nonfiction | text based on actual events |
| Before Reading | Survey and set a purpose |
| During Reading | Visualize and predict |
| After Reading | Reflect and review |
| Short Term Memory | Working memory |
| Sensory Input | How information gets into the short term memory |
| Long Term Memory | Connect information and it will go here |
| SQ3RT | Survey, Question, Read, Recite, Review, Test |
| Multiple Intelligences | Musical, Visual, Auditory, Naturalist, Interpersonal, Intrapersonal, Kinesthetic |
| Prefix | letters added to the beginning of a word that change the meaning of it |
| Suffix | letters added at the end of a word that change the meaning of it |
| Synonym | one of two or more words in a language that have highly similar meanings |
| -less | without; lacking |
| -ness | state, quality or condition |
| Big 6 or 4 Square | a strategy to use to do a research papaer |
| RACE | used to help you write a complete answer to a reading prompt |
| SQ3RT | a strategy to use to read a social studies chapter |
| SWBS | a strategy to use to write a summary for a story |
| context clues | a strategy to unlock the meaning of unknown words in text |
| informational essay | a paper written to share detailed information through research |
| persuasive essay | a paper that states your opinion in order to influence others to have that same opinion |
| narrative | a paper written to share a story |
| clear focus | maintains a single point of view |
| style | uses a variety of vocabulary & use appropriate tone and voice |
| good content | includes specific details, inferences, and connections that stick to the topic |
| good organization | has an effective introduction and conclusion with a logical order |
| good use of conventions | effectively edit writing for proper grammar, punctuation, & spelling |
| margin/response notes | during reading strategy |
| compliments | expression of praise or admiration |
| savory | tasty; pleasing |
| imbedded | implanted;firmly established |
| binoculars | device for making distant items appear closer |
| futile | useless |
| flailed | waved or swung vigorously |
| prestigious | respected and important |
| intrigued | interested; curious |
| perishables | things that will likely spoil or decay |
| commences | starts |
| foundation | basis on which something rests |
| venturesome | risky; adventurous |
| dwindled | lessend; gone down |
| proclomation | public announcement; declaration |
| soliciting | asking earnestly and sincerely for; requesting; trying to get |
| advocating | speaking in favor of |
| circum- | in a circle |
| auto- | self or by oneself |
| -est | to show the highest degree of |
| -alter | other |
| -er | person or thing that does something |
| -cred | believe |
| bio- | life |
| -ful | full of |
| -leg | law |
| counter- | in opposition to; against; in return |
