Skills Index
Abbreviations 152 Adjectival phrases 47 Adjectives 47, 64 Adverbial phrases 111 Adverbs 110, 112 Alliteration 108 Antonyms 74 Apostrophe of possession 73 Audience and purpose 78, 98, 156
Information sources 91, 148 Instructions 125, 126 Interjections 113 Internet 99 Journal 20, 50, 53, 81, 107 KWL chart 87 Letters friendly 17, 23, 32, 177 formal 132 Main idea 19 Maps and plans 97 Metaphors 100 Narrative composition 10 Nouns collective 13 countable/uncountable 94 plurals 11 types 11 Noun phrases 14 Onomatopoeia 108 Opposites 74 Paragraphs 82
Capital letters 11, 151 Cause and effect 27 Checklists description 58, 75
expository 97 letter 23, 137 persuasive 85 Classifying 154 Colons 160 Commas 72, 160 Compare and contrast 117, 157 Comparative/superlative 48, 112 Conditional sentences 159 Conjunctions 92 Context clues 54, 69 Contractions 145 Descriptive composition 54, 58, 107 Diagrams 123 Dictionary work 39 Drafting 23 Expository writing 89, 95, 180 Fact/fiction 35 Fact/opinion 36, 133
Passive voice 126 Personification 34 Persuasive writing 80, 85, 100, 137, 178 Phrases 14, 21, 102, 111 Poems 43, 44, 46, 106, 114, 134, 139 Portfolio 40, 75, 85, 95, 137
Possessive adjectives 64 Possessive pronouns 65 Predicting outcomes 60, 115 Prefixes 57
Fishbone 71, 174 For and against 81 Glossary 88, 187 Graphs and tables 149, 150 Helping verbs 21, 30, 55
Prepositions 101 Project 104, 146 Pronouns possessive 65
Homographs 121 Homophones 129 Hyperbole 100 Index 90 Inferring 70
relative 135 reflexive 65 subject and object 63
Proofreading 32 Questions 30, 39
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