| A | B |
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| draw conclusions | use what you already know and clues from the story to make a decision |
| compare | tell how things are alike |
| effect | what happens |
| homophone | words that sound alike, but have different spellings and meanings |
| metaphor | compares or contras two nouns saying something IS something |
| simile | compares two unlike things using the words "like" or "as" |
| solution | how the problem in a story is solved |
| contrast | tell how things are different |
| sequence | the order in which things happen |
| antonym | a word that means the opposite |
| verb | an action word |
| problem | what needs to be solved in a story |
| author's purpose | why the author wrote the story |
| plural | more than one |
| onomatopoeia | words that stand for sounds |
| cause | why something happens |
| author | the person who wrote a story |
| character | who the story is about |
| noun | a person, place, or thing |
| glossary | tells the meaning of words in the back of the book |
| narrator | the person who tells a story |
| main idea | what the story is mostly about |
| context clues | use the words and sentences around a word to understand the meaning |
| adverb | a word that describes a verb |
| illustrator | the person who drew the pictures in a story |
| synonym | a word that means almost the same |
| adjective | a word that describes a noun |
| plot | what happens in a story |
| setting | when and where a story takes place |
| compound word | two words that are put together to make a new word |
