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Reading Street wk1
Academic language - 5th grade
Question | Answer |
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character | a person, an animal in a story |
climax | the point in the story at which conflict is confronted |
declarative sentence | a sentence that tells something and ends in a period |
exclamatory sentence | a sentence that expresses strong feeling or surprise and ends in an exclamation mark |
homograph | a word that is spelled the same as another word, but has different meaning. The words may or may not sound the same. |
imperative sentence | a sentence that gives a command or makes a request . It usually ends with a period. |
Interrogative sentence | a sentence that asks a question and ends with a question mark |
monitor and clarify | to know when you understand or do not understand what you are reading and use strategies to help you |
how to text | a set of directions telling how to do something |
plot | the events at the beginning, middle and end of a story, the action in a story |
rising action | the build-up of problems in a story |
resolution | the point in the story where the problem is solved |
conflict | the problem or struggle in a story |
context clues | the words, phrases, or sentences near an unknown word that give the reader clues to the word's meaning. |