Skills Index
Letter-writing formal
Abbreviations
18, 87
107, 168
Adjectives
27, 62, 116
informal
16, 23, 108, 167
identifying, using comparative
Main idea
16, 17, 35, 41, 44, 77, 81, 107, 108, 148
28 28 93
superlative
Metaphor Narrator Negatives
68, 125
Adverbs
10
Advertisements
13, 84, 116, 139
37, 47, 102, 143 Notes (make notes) 14, 32, 49, 65, 77, 81, 89, 105, 113, 118, 121, 134, 137, 141, 154 Nouns collective 21 common and proper 11 possessive 63 Onomatopoeia 26 Opposites 38, 153 Paragraphs 49, 77, 79, 81 Past continuous tense 56 Past tense regular 45 irregular 46 Peer editing 31, 65, 97 Personification 51 Phrases 39, 61 Plurals regular 12 irregular 13 Portfolio 23, 30, 31, 49, 73, 81, 89, 97, 113, 134, 143 Poetry 51, 52, 67, 123, 124 Possessive adjectives 62 Possessive nouns 63 Possessive pronouns 63 Predicting outcomes 91, 160 Prefixes 80 Prepositions 118 Present continuous tense 55 Present tense am/is/are 54 has/have 142 questions and negative 37, 38, 143 subject–verb agreement 20 Project 121, 145 Pronouns indefinite 21 possessive 63 relative 152 subject and object 70 Proofreading 23, 97, 137 Punctuation 11, 16, 39, 97, 110, 126, 137 Question–Answer Relationships 9, 77
Alliteration
125
Alphabetical order
56, 112
Antonyms Apostrophe
153
61, 119
Audience and purpose
16, 22, 83, 107, 117, 139, 145
Book report Capital letters Cause and effect
32, 158, 170 11, 88, 110
26, 35, 54, 92, 149, 160
Character description
25, 97, 127, 134
Checklists
instruction proofreading
105
3
report
154
revising
65
story
31, 65, 97
writing
22
Commas
103, 109, 110,128
Context clues Contractions
35, 44, 60, 68, 92, 123
119
Diagrams
35
Dictionary work
27, 44, 56, 73, 80, 112
Directions
101
Drafting
14, 23, 31, 49, 57, 65, 73, 81, 89, 97, 105, 137, 154
Expository text Fact/fiction Fact/opinion Future tense
49, 89
34
116
85
Glossary
35, 44, 76, 171
Graphs and tables
34, 83, 144
Has/have
142
Homographs Homophones
48 72
Inference
9
Information sources
36, 39, 61, 81, 120
Instructions
99, 101, 105
Internet
117, 120
Joining words and/but/so
110 111
because/although
Journal
14, 32, 41, 43, 47, 54, 60, 61, 64, 73, 76, 85, 103, 117, 129, 141
KWL chart
34
172
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