<p>Reading Terms to Know:</p><p>Inference, infer, inferring</p><p>Theme</p><p>Main idea</p><p>Details</p><p>Characters</p><p>Summarize</p><p>Draw conclusions</p><p>Compare & contrast</p><p>Cause & effect</p><p>Problem & Solution evidence</p><p>Setting</p><p>Plot</p><p>Context clues</p><p>Figurative language – metaphor, simile, personification, alliteration, idiom, proverb, adage.</p><p>Chapter, Scene, Stanza</p><p>Author’s point of view</p><p>Genre Writing words to know:</p><p>Fact vs opinion</p><p>Informative/explanatory writing</p><p>Persuasive writing</p><p>Narrative writing (entertainment)</p><p>Transition words</p><p>Introduction</p><p>Conclusion</p><p>Writing with a purpose</p><p>Keeping your audience in mind Grammar words to know:</p><p>Conjunctions</p><p>Prepositions</p><p>Interjections</p><p>Verbs & verb tense (past, present, future)</p><p>Adverbs</p><p>Nouns</p><p>Adjectives</p><p>Punctuation</p><p>Comma & when to use it.</p><p>Quotation marks</p><p>Italics</p><p>Word roots</p><p>Dictionary</p><p>Glossary</p><p>Thesaurus</p><p>Synonyms</p><p>Antonyms</p><p>Homographs</p><p>Homophones </p>