Vocabulary
Make a claim about your family.
? Ms. St. John will decide if your answer is correct.
What does the beginning of every sentence need to start with?
A capital letter
What do you add to your schema?
information, facts, what I know, what I think I know, new information or details
What kinds of organisms live in an ecosystem?
biotic and abiotic
living and non-living organisms
Name a 3 syllable word.
A word that has 3 beats.
in-crease-ing
de-fault-ed
or-gan-elle
spell the word __________
S C H E M A
Who tells the story in a text?
narrator
what is a noun ?
A person, place, thing or idea
What is Mr. Simahk's cat's name?
Hank
What step in the water cycle produces rain, sleet, or snow?
Precipitation
Name a text feature
photograph, heading, map, caption, sidebar, chart
What is an antonym for the word summer.
winter
True or False
When I summarize, I talk about all of the details from a text.
False
Summarize means to tell or write about the main points or main ideas.
What is an adjective?
A word that describes a noun.
rain, storms, snow, blizzards, clouds, sun etc
What are two things all living things need to survive?
water, air, shelter, food
Name an author.
names of people who wrote books
What is a synonym for sleep.
snooze, nap, rest, slumber
Is this the correct use of the word navigate?
The ant had to navigate around the tree to get back to its anthill.
correct
The ant has to figure out how to get around obstacles to get to its destination.
What should always go at the end of a sentence?
Punctuation. (.!?)
What animals live with Ms. Lopez?
a dog
What is another word for the environment that an animal lives in?
habitat
Who am I? I refused to give up my seat and they protested buses because I was arrested. I was part of a movement for African American rights.
Rosa Parks
What is the name of a word, syllable or letter at the beginning of a root word to change its meaning.
prefix
re (means again) reclaim, return
sub (means under or below) submarine, sub
de (means off or from) detach, descend, depict
Name a synonym for the word narrator
Which words are nouns?
decide, details, argue, brown, ice
details, ice
communicate with other players, work together to get someone out etc..
What is a cloud made of?
water droplets.
True or False. Non fiction is a story that is not real or made up.
False
Non fiction is a true story or tells the reader facts
name two nouns from the verb narrate
narrator, narration, narrative
Name an antonym for strategy
no plan, no action
What is the subject of a sentence?
The who OR what the sentence is about.
Fact or opinion
Humans live in an ecosystem.
Fact
Name two body systems
circulatory, nervous, digestive, respiratory, reproductive, immune, muscular
What is a narrative?
A story written about someone or something.
Name 4 parts of speech
noun, verb adjective, interjection, preposition, pronoun, conjunction