Grammar 1
What is a noun?
What is a person, place, thing, or idea?
What is a proper noun? Give an example.
What is a specific person, place, thing, or idea that is capitalized? What is Walmart, Target, Texas, American Airlines, Hall's Pumpkin Farm, etc.
What does author's purpose mean?
What are the four kinds of context clues?
What are definition, example, antonym, and synonym?
What is the message of the poem?
A. The author's purpose, or reason, for writing
B. The main idea
What is B, the main idea?
-ing goes at the end of words happening in the ____ tense.
What is present?
In the sentence, "He are walking to the school down the street," what needs to be changed?
What is "he is walking to the school down the street," because if the subject of the sentence is "he/she" it goes with is and "we/they" goes with are (subject/verb agreement).
What are three reasons (however these are NOT always the only reasons) that the author writes?
What is to persuade, to inform, or to entertain
What is the context clue in this example sentence?
What does arboretum mean?
The arboretum, a place where many different kinds of trees and plants are grown, was beautiful in the spring.
What is a definition?
If a line number is given in the question, what should I do?
A good closing sentence should not flow well and sound complete. It should be a random thought. True or false?
What is false?
To make something past tense, I add ___ to the end of the word.
What is -ed?
What is the author's purpose for an Italian recipe book?
What is to inform about how to make Italian food?
True or false, I can use the words around the word I am trying to understand to find the meaning.
What is true?
What is the author's reason for writing also known as?
What is the author's purpose?
What is the difference between it's and its or lets and let's?
What is let's means let us and it's means it is?
To make something future tense, I add ____ before the word?
What is will?
What is the author's purpose of a makeup advertisement found in a magazine?
What is to persuade customers to buy makeup?
The ancient civilization was known for its advanced architecture, including massive pyramids, intricate temples, and enormous stone monuments.
What is the meaning of architecture, and what kind of context clue is being used?
What is a building and example?
What are the three parts of ACE?
What is answer the question and restate, cite your evidence (using quotations and page/paragraph/line number), and explain your answer?
What are all of the conjunctions in FANBOYS? ALSO name the four sentence types (one is imperative)...
What is for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so?
What is imperative, interrogative, declarative, and exclamatory?
How could you combine the sentences: I like playing with my dogs. I don't like playing with my cats?
What is I like playing with my dogs, but I don't like playing with my cats?
Huskies are the friendliest dogs. They can even survive in Alaska in very cold weather! You should get a husky!
What is the author's purpose?
What is to persuade the reader to get a husky?
Although the scientist was known for being meticulous, her assistant was often careless and rushed.
What is the meaning of meticulous and what is the context clue?
What is paying attention to detail and what is the antonym?
What are good sentence stems for citing evidence and explaining? (How should these sentences start in your SCR?)
Explain should start with "this shows..."