| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Primary Source | Text and/or artifacts that tell a first-hand account or are original works (letters, journals, etc.) |
| Secondary Source | Text and/or artifacts that are not original, but written from something original (biographies, magazine articles, research papers). |
| Story Maps | A visual representation of a story that provides an overview including characters, setting, the problem, and resolution or ending. |
| Subject area | An organized body of knowledge; a discipline; a content area. |
| Suffix | Groups of letters placed after a word that change its meaning or part of speech. |
| Summarize | To capture all the most important parts of the original story, but express them in a much shorter space, and in the readers own words. |
| Style | How an author writes; an author's use of language |
| Symbolism | A device in literature where an object represents an idea. |
| Synonym | One of two or more words in a language that have highly similar meanings (e.g., sorrow, grief, sadness). |
| Syntax | The pattern or structure of word order in sentences, clauses and phrases. |
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