Across
- 1. To notice something small or hard to notice.
- 4. A suffix used to turn verbs like enjoy, treat, and excite into nouns.
- 7. Happily, freely, carefully, eventually, excitedly.
- 9. When a person in charge says something is okay.
- 10. A suffix used to turn adjectives into nouns.
- 12. Giving the most important parts of someone else’s writing, in your own words.
- 15. Because I wanted to see what was under there.
- 16. To take back, or change your mind about, something you said was okay.
- 17. A prefix meaning "with or together"
- 18. How an author shows the personality of characters, usually through their actions and dialogue.
- 20. A clue in a story about what will happen next.
- 24. Laying on your back facing up.
- 26. Writing that tries to remind the reader of a famous event or person.
- 28. The first sentence of each paragraph in an essay, which summarizes what the paragraph is about and transitions from the paragraph before.
- 30. Something in a story that repeats over and over.
- 31. Glistening green grass grows gradually.
- 32. The time and place of a story.
- 34. Splat, creak, pop
- 35. To share sadness with someone as a way of helping them.
- 39. Doctor, bathroom, hat, lunch.
- 40. Pretty, soft, dangerous, confusing, fun.
- 43. The rabbit, my annoying sister, might have gone, before the storm.
- 45. A suffix used to turn verbs like act, depress, and discuss into nouns.
- 46. A word used to describe a response to something bad, that you think was *also* bad.
- 47. A prefix meaning "between"
- 49. A morpheme that goes at the ends of words.
Down
- 2. A modern way to do things. Antonym of old-fashioned.
- 3. To put something off for a while, instead of doing it right away.
- 5. Sneeze, laugh, eat, were, borrow, is.
- 6. Passed on, lost an arm, use the restroom.
- 7. A prefix meaning "self"
- 8. How an author wants the reader to feel when reading.
- 11. The dirty bus sped past us on the crowded road.
- 13. A shape or personality that can be changed easily.
- 14. The lonely tree standing alone on the hill shivered in the cold wind.
- 19. The sentence in the introduction of an essay that summarizes all of the important ideas in the paper.
- 21. A suffix meaning "something you can do"
- 22. A small or childish fight or argument.
- 23. What other people think and say about you.
- 25. In, on, under, for, to, before, after, through, between.
- 27. The part of every clause or sentence that answers the question, "Who did it?"
- 29. Copying someone else’s words, without using quotation marks.
- 33. The part of every clause or sentence that answers the question, "What did they do?"
- 36. Pushing something under, usually under water.
- 37. How the author feels about what they are writing.
- 38. The outside edge of a shape, usually of property.
- 41. A word used to describe a response to something bad, that you think was a *good* response and made things better.
- 42. A prefix meaning "across or through"
- 44. A morpheme that goes at the beginnings of words.
- 48. Writing with a broken pencil is pointless.