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60 Cards in this Set
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What are antonyms?
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Words that are opposites.
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What are homophones?
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Words that sound alike but have different meanings
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What is background knowledge?
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connections between the text and your experiences
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What is a baseword?
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The word before adding a prefix or a suffix
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What is blending?
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combining sounds together to make words
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What is comprehension?
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understanding and remembering what is being read
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What is a consonant blend?
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two or more consonants which are blended together to make one sound
ch, sh, th, wh, str, thr, str |
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What are consonant digraphs?
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ch, sh, th, wh, - two or more consonants blended together to make one sound
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What are context clues?
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using the text to figure out the meaning of an unfamiliar word
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What are dipthongs?
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ow, oy, ou,- a vowel that is sounded in two parts
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What is the main idea?
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What the paragraph or story is about. It can be found in the title, at the beginning or at the end, but never in the middle
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What is listening?
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understanding and remembering what is heard
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What is fluency?
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reading with speed, smoothness, and expression in order to comprehend
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What is vocabulary?
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the words you need to know in order to understand what is being read
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What is retelling?
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saying the information that has been read in a story, passage, or book in the correct sequential order
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What is rhyming?
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words that have the same middle and ending sounds
fly - cry |
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What is a root word?
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the same as a base word
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What is a prefix?
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letters added to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of the word
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What is a suffix?
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letters added to the end of a word that changes the meaning of the word
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What is summarizing?
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retelling the main points in sequence
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What is a synonym?
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words that have the same or nearly the same meaning
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What are compound words?
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two words put together to make one word
side - walk sidewalk |
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What is a dictionary?
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a book that is written in alphabetical order that is used to define a word or tell its meaning. It also tells how to pronounce a word
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What is a thesaurus?
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A book of synonyms that is used to make our writing more clear and interesting
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What is the encyclopedia?
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volumes of books in alphabetical order used to find informatiom about particular topics or subjects
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What is a newspaper?
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News and information that can be local, state, or national. It contains pictures, captions, ads, comics, obituaries, classifieds, and much more
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What is an atlas?
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a book of maps
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What is the meaning of genre?
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kinds of books
mystery, fantasy, poetry, biography, autobiography, fiction, nonfiction, folktale, realistic fiction |
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What is the meaning of an idiom?
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a phrase that is not taken seriously. It is figure of speech.
"Don't let the cat out of the bag." |
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What is an /r/ controlled vowel?
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a vowel that is followed by the letter /r/
ar, er, ir, or, ur |
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What is a word family?
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a group of words that contain the same letters or group of letters and sometimes rhyme
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What is a syllable?
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a group of letters made up of a vowel sound or a vowel consonant sound. Syllables contain only 1 vowel
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What are the vowels?
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a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y
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What are long vowels?
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All long vowels say their names.
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What are contraction?
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two words shortened by dropping one letter and using an apostrophe.
can not can't |
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What are possessives?
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showing ownership
The boy's bicycle. |
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What is a noun?
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a person, place or thing
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What is a common noun?
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a regular noun
girl, teacher, policeman |
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What is a proper noun?
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a particular noun
Lancaster Middle School Walmart Mrs. Waddy |
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What is a verb?
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an action word
run, sit, laugh, hide, write, eat |
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What is an adjective?
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describing words
huge, beautiful, excellent |
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What is the meaning of singular?
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one
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What is the meaning of plural?
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more than one
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What are the consonants?
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bcdfghjklmnopqrstvwxyz
letters that are not vowels |
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What are the vowels?
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letters that are not consonants
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What does it mean to use the context?
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use the words and sentences in a passage to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words
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What does it mean to draw conclusions?
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knowing what is not stated in a passage by using your own experiences and what you already know about the passage to determine what is being said
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What is cause and effect
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One thing makes another happen. The cause is the reason why someting happens. The effect is what happens.
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What is meant by who?
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a person
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What is meant by when?
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a time
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What is meant by where?
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a place
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What is meant by why?
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a reason
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What does it mean to compare and contrast?
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to tell how things are alike, different and the same for all things being compared
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What is the setting?
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the time and place of a story
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What is meant by sequence?
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putting things in the order that they happened
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What is the title?
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The name of a book or story
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What is meant by illustrator?
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The person who drew the pictures in a book
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Who are characters?
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The people and animals in a book or story
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What is the author's purpose?
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Why an author wrote a book or story-
to inform, to experess, to entertain, to persuade, to give the steps in a process |
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What are picture clues?
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Using the illustrations to remember the events in a book or story
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