Reading 6-1: Review of Terms
Here is a list of terms we talked about in Units 1-5.
| Words | Parts of Speech | Definitions |
| vocabulary | noun | a list of words/all the words that someone knows |
| define | verb | correctly describe a word |
| definition | noun | a sentence that says what a word means |
| parts of speech | phrase | word types (noun, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions) |
| phrase | noun | two or more words used together to make a meaning |
| writer/author | noun | the person who writes |
| reader | noun | the person who reads |
| I | pronoun | used by writers or characters to talk about themselves |
| you | pronoun | used by writers or characters to talk to another person |
| he | pronoun | used by writers or characters to talk about a man |
| she | pronoun | used by writers or characters to talk about a woman |
| it | pronoun | used by writers or characters to talk about a thing |
| character | noun | a person in a story |
| quotation marks | noun | (“ “) used to show someone is talking - exact words |
| past tense | adjective/noun | a form of a verb that shows something that happened in the past |
| say/said | verb | express feelings and ideas using words |
| agree/agreed | verb | express same opinion using words |
| shout/shouted/ yell/yelled |
verb | use words loudly |
| explain/explained | verb | tell someone to make it clear |
| remark/remarked | verb | to say something about what you just noticed |
| ask/asked | verb | say something to get information from someone else |
| think/thought | verb | have words or ideas in your mind |
| sing/sang | verb | make music with the voice |
| setting | noun | time and place for a story |
| fact | noun | information known to be true |
| opinion | noun | ideas or beliefs about an idea |
| present tense | adjective/noun | a form of a verb that shows something happens now |
| future tense | adjective/noun | a form of a verb that shows something will happen in the future |
| fiction | adjective/noun | stories about imaginary people |
| nonfiction | adjective/noun | stories/articles about real people and real events |