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St Mary unit 1 LA
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Characters | the people or animals in a story |
| Plot | Series of events or the problem of a story |
| Setting | When and Where a story takes place |
| Compare | show how things are similar |
| Contrast | show how things are different |
| Summarize | retell it briefly in your own words |
| Main idea | often found in the first sentence of a paragraph |
| Supporting details | tell you more about the paragraphs main idea |
| Context clues | other words in a sentence that help you define an unfamiliar word |
| Synonyms | words that mean the same |
| Cause | is the reason why something happens |
| effect | is the the result or what happens |
| Signal words for Cause and effect | "Because" "So" "As a result" |
| Charts | usually has heading on columns and info in the columns helps organize |
| homograph | words that have different meaning and different sounds with the same spelling |
| compound word | two smaller words put together |
| toolbar | a strip of features that allow you to visit different features in a web site |
| link | an electronic connection on a web site that provides direct access to other information |
| Photographs | drawing that provide visual image of a story |
| caption | tells you what happening in a picture |