Almost everyone is finished with their most recent Practice EOG. I will score them this week and send the grade home. We will go over each question together in class to make sure everyone understands the correct answer. Students will work at EOG and Vocabulary Centers to practice skills like main idea, inference, and reading comprehension.
Vocabulary for the Week- Test on Thursday!!
Cause: What makes something happen
Effect: What happens because of something.
Main Idea: What the story is mainly about.
Purpose: why the author wrote the passage
Opinion: How a person feels about something
Characteristics: Traits a character has
Fact: A statement that is true
sentences that support the main idea that tells who, what, when, where and why
To Entertain: Humor the reader (funny)
To Inform: To give information or facts to the reader
To Persuade: To get the reader to buy or do something
Prediction: Something you think will happen
Compare and Contrast: How are things alike and different
Sequence: The order of events
Characters: The people or animals in the story
Plot: Part of the story that tells what happens.
Problem: Part of the Plot. Also known as the conflict
Resolution: When the problem in the story is fixed
Setting: Where and when the story takes place.
Synonym: Words that have the same meaning
Antonym: Words that have the opposite meaning
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