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Interjection - ANS ✓Word of exclamation. E.g. hey!, please!, oh Subject - ANS ✓In a sentence, it is who or what the sentence is about imperative sentence - ANS ✓Verb subject understood, but not actually in the sentence. E.g There are FIVE LETTERS in the mailbox. Implied - go to the post office? - you are is the word. Predicate - ANS ✓tells what the subject is or does. E.g. John and Jane sing in a Tuesday at the hall. - answer- John and Jane. subject-verb agreement - ANS ✓subject stays the same; verb must be singular or plural to match the subject number agreement - ANS ✓using singular/plural form of nouns correctly. E.g.dan calls home. Correct as Dan is one person. person agreement - ANS ✓I AM, you ARE, he IS walking. compound subject - ANS ✓two or more subjects joined together usually by "and" or "or" that share a common verb
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Indefinite pronoun as subject - ANS ✓Does not to refer to specific noun. E.g. EACH (s) runner HAS (V) a different number. Complements - ANS ✓A noun, pronoun, or adjective used to give more information Direct Objects (DO) - ANS ✓a noun phrase denoting a person or thing that is the recipient of the action of a transitive verb indirect object - ANS ✓tells to whom or for whom the action of the verb is done; example: Jack showed the DOG kindness. Pronoun Usage - ANS ✓the use of pronouns to get someone on your side and against your enemies antecedent - ANS ✓The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun. Clauses - ANS ✓a group of words with a subject and a verb (predicate). independent clause - ANS ✓A clause that can stand alone as a sentence. E.g? I am running. dependent clause - ANS ✓A phrase that can't stand alone as a complete sentence. E.g. because I want to stay in shape. Types of clauses - ANS ✓Dependent, independent, subordinate, adjective, restrictive/non-restrictive, elliptical, coordinate, nominal Phrases - ANS ✓a group of words that function together as a part of speech. Adds detail or explanation.
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Parallelism - ANS ✓similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses. E.g. He stopped at the office, THE store, and the pharmacy before coming home. Sentence Purpose: Declarative - ANS ✓States fact and ends with a period. Sentence Purpose: imperative - ANS ✓Tells someone to do something. Sentence Purpose: interrogative - ANS ✓Asks questions Sentence Purpose: Exclamatory - ANS ✓Shows strong emotion and ends with a ! Sentence structure: simple - ANS ✓one independent clause. E.g. JUDY (s) WATERED (v) the lawn. Sentence structure: compound - ANS ✓Two or more independent clauses. E.g. THE TIME HAS COME, and WE ARE READY. - words in caps show the two clauses. Sentence structure: complex - ANS ✓One independent clause and one defendant clause. E.g. Although he had the flu (IC), Harry went to work. (DC) Sentence structure: compound-complex - ANS ✓Two independent clauses and at least one dependent clause. Sentence fragments - ANS ✓Phrases or incomplete sentences missing either a subject, predicate, or a complete thought. run-on sentence - ANS ✓two or more sentences joined without adequate punctuation or connecting words
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dangling modifier - ANS ✓a word or phrase that has no logical connection. Need to rearrange to amend to enable sentence to be correct. misplaced modifier - ANS ✓a phrase or clause placed awkwardly in a sentence so that it appears to modify or refer to an unintended word. double negative - ANS ✓The use of two negative words such as never, no, not, neither, none, no one, nobody, nothing, barely, hardly, or scarcely in the same clause. semicolon - ANS ✓a punctuation mark (;) indicating a pause, typically between two main clauses, that is more pronounced than that indicated by a comma. Colons - ANS ✓a punctuation mark (:) used to precede a list of items, a quotation, or an expansion or explanation. Parenthesis - ANS ✓An insertion of material that interrupts the typical flow of a sentence. E.g. [image 2] Apostrophe - ANS ✓Used to show possession. singular - David's basketball plural - boys' basketball plural noun - Men's department hyphen - ANS ✓a punctuation mark (-) used to separate a compound word. E.g. twenty-five, well-fed Dash - ANS ✓To show a break or change in thought
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conciseness - ANS ✓expressing much in few words Transitions - ANS ✓Smooth what has been read and what is to be read. figurative language - ANS ✓writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally descriptive language - ANS ✓Words intended to create a mood, person, place, thing, event, emotion, or experience exaggeration - ANS ✓overstatement Simile - ANS ✓A comparison using "like" or "as". E.g. house was like a shoebox. Metaphor - ANS ✓A comparison without using like or as e.g. swaying skeletons reached for the sky and groaned in the wind. (Describing trees) figure of speech - ANS ✓An expression that strives for literary effect rather than conveying a literal meaning. Personification - ANS ✓the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea. E.g. Trees were dancing in the wind. literacy - ANS ✓the ability to read and write phonological awareness - ANS ✓knowledge of sounds and syllables and of the sound structure of words
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phoneme - ANS ✓smallest unit of sound Alphabetic Principle - ANS ✓ABILITY TO CONNECT LETTERS WITH SOUNDS, AND TO CREATE WORDS BASED ON THESE ASSOCIATIONS. Phonological - ANS ✓the study of the sound system of a given language and the analysis and classification of its phonemes Logographic - ANS ✓Signs represent words or ideas - Chinese system Syllabic - ANS ✓one note per syllable - Japan system Language Development - ANS ✓the process by which children come to understand and communicate language during early childhood.
- Model
- Question and example
- Provide response time
- Provide clarification
- Conversation
- Provide feedback print-rich environment - ANS ✓allows children engage - displays, graphic organizers, big books. Print and book awareness - ANS ✓Connection, comprehension, spoken lauguage Decoding - ANS ✓interpreting and trying to make sense of the message
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Sonnet Poetry - ANS ✓a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme Prose - ANS ✓written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure. drawing inferences - ANS ✓Occurs when the readers take what they know, garner clues from the text and think ahead to make a judgment, discern a theme, or speculate about what is to come. Predictions - ANS ✓an educated guess about what is going to happen next in a story topic sentence - ANS ✓A sentence that expresses the main idea of the paragraph in which it occurs. graphic organizer - ANS ✓A visual aid to help organize information.
- venn diagram
- spider map Organizing text - ANS ✓- chronologically
- cause and effect
- multiple effects from single effect
- problem solution
- compare and contrast
- sequence
- point of view Transitional words and phrases - ANS ✓Connectors that tie one idea to another, one sentence to another, or one paragraph to another
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Point of view - ANS ✓the perspective from which a story is told author's purpose - ANS ✓The reason the author has for writing. ( Inform, persuade, express, & entertain) evaluate an argument - ANS ✓- text evidence
- credibility fact and opinion - ANS ✓a fact can be proved; an opinion is a belief and can not be supported by proof or evidence Reliable sources - ANS ✓trustworthy materials that come from experts in the field of study. Use for credibility of opinion. Biases - ANS ✓distorted beliefs based on a person's subjective sense of reality denotative meaning - ANS ✓the literal or dictionary meaning of a word or phrase connotative meaning - ANS ✓the personal and subjective meaning of a word. Includes emotion. context clues - ANS ✓Clues in surrounding text that help the reader determine the meaning of an unknown word synonym - ANS ✓A word that means the same as another word e.g. dry and arid antonym - ANS ✓a word that means the opposite of another word. E.g. dry and wet
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Theme in Les Miserables - ANS ✓Character change from convict to noble benefactor Theme of Tell Tale Heart - ANS ✓Guilt is a powerful force that cannot be ignored or avoided Theme in works of William Faulkner and Charles Dickens - ANS ✓Decay of old southern traditions story and discourse - ANS ✓Story - plot, character, place, events discourse - how author arranges and sequences events Plot/Meaning - ANS ✓Some stories convey meaning, some with convey multiple perspectives, some aim to shape, direct meaning within random events plot line - ANS ✓the pattern of events, including exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution Inference - ANS ✓A conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning predictions（prediction） - ANS ✓Guess what might happen. Based on prior knowledge and what reading, context clues. compare and contrast - ANS ✓Give an account of similarities and differences between two (or more) items or situations, referring to both (all) of them throughout. Literal and figurative meaning - ANS ✓Literal - words mean what they say
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Figurative - offers new insight into other people, things, and events. Allows reader to share in authors experiences. Alliteration - ANS ✓The repetition of initial consonant sounds, such as "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers." Onomatopoeia - ANS ✓A word that imitates the sound it represents. Bees buzzing personfication - ANS ✓giving human characteristics to something that is not human Similes - ANS ✓A comparison using "like" or "as" Metaphor - ANS ✓a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable. Hyperbole - ANS ✓exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally. E.g. people moved slowly, there was no hurry, nothing to see, nothing to do. Literary Irony - ANS ✓a contrast between what is said and what is meant. E.g. she sells her hair to buy a watch strap, he sells the watch face to buy hair combs. explicit - ANS ✓definite, clearly stated implicit - ANS ✓implied though not plainly expressed Paired Reading - ANS ✓means partners reading aloud to each other for the purpose of practicing, sharing, developing fluency, communicating information, or modeling oral reading technique
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General noun - ANS ✓Name of condition or idea. E.g. beauty, truth Specific nouns - ANS ✓Names people, places and things, such as baby, friend, town, rainbow collective noun - ANS ✓a word that names a group. E.g. class, company, group. Pronoun - ANS ✓A word that takes the place of a noun personal noun - ANS ✓refers to a person I, you, she, it Relative pronoun - ANS ✓linked group of words preceding noun or pronoun; examples: who, which, that interrogative pronoun - ANS ✓pronoun that asks a question; examples: who, whom, whose, what, which demonstrative pronoun - ANS ✓this, that, these, those indefinite pronoun - ANS ✓a pronoun that does not refer to a specific, person, place, thing, or idea; examples: everyone, everything, everybody, anybody, many, most, few, each, some, someone, all, nothing, nobody, and no one recipricol pronoun - ANS ✓Each other, one another Verbs - ANS ✓action words
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transitive verb - ANS ✓An action verb that has a direct object intransitive verb - ANS ✓An action verb that does not have a direct object action verb - ANS ✓A verb that shows that something is being done, a word that shows action. linking verb - ANS ✓links two words together active voice - ANS ✓Expresses an action done by its subject. passive voice - ANS ✓The subject of the sentence receives the action. present tense - ANS ✓happening now past tense - ANS ✓shows action that has already happened present perfect tense - ANS ✓verb tense that describes an action that began in the past but continues til the present. Ex. Have heard, Has played, Has run past perfect tense - ANS ✓for an earlier action that is mentioned in a later action. (Ex: Cindy ate the apple that she HAD PICKED. - First she picked it, then she ate it.) Future Perfect Tense - ANS ✓verb tense to express an action that will be completed by or before a specified time in the future. Ex. Will have heard, Will have played, Will have run. Conjugation of Verbs - ANS ✓Changing from simple verbs to: present , past, infinitive, or imperative.
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subordinating conjunction - ANS ✓a conjunction (like 'since' or 'that' or 'who') that introduces a dependent clause. E.g. I am hunger BECAUSE I did not eat breakfast.
