Mr. Bruno's Super Students

Updated 8- 25- 2013

Spelling and Vocabulary

Students are tested on the meanings of these words on Friday:

1. Antonym- a word with opposite meaning.

2. Synonym- a word having the same or almost the same meaning.

3. Homophone- words that sound the same but have different meanings and spellings.

4. Prefixes- a letter or group of letters that come at the beginning of a word.

5. Suffixes- a letter or group of letters that come at the end of a word.

6. Root Words- the part of a word that can stand on its own after the prefix or suffix has been removed.

7. Adjectives- a word that describes a noun.

8. Point of View- a way of looking at or thinking about something.

9. Transition Words- words that help move throughout a story from one subject to another.

10. Contractions- a shortening of a word or word group by leaving out letters and adding an apostrophe.

11. Complete Sentence- contains a subject and a predicate. Is a
complete thought.

12. Pronoun- a word used in place of a noun.

13. Quotation Marks- a pair of punctuation marks used at the beginning and end of what is being said.

14. Possessives- shows or indicates ownership.

15. Compound Sentences- two or more sentences joined together to make one.

Mr. Bruno's Super Students

Sunday, August 25, 2013

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