Text Genres
Vocabulary
Writing Skills
Parts of Speech
Punctuation
100
This genre is a made up story with characters, a problem and a solution.
What is fiction?
100
This word means to be courageous, heroic and generous.
What is greathearted?
100
In an essay, this paragraph introduces the topic or purpose of the essay.
As a sentence, this part of a paragraph hooks the reader and grabs their attention.
What is an introduction?
100
This word is a A person, place, thing, idea, or feeling.
What is a noun?
100
This punctuation is used at the end of a sentence when making a statement.
What is a period?
200
This genre is a story about someone's life written by someone else.
What is a biography?
200
This word means to be slowed down for a period of time or inactive.
[Hint: You learned this word when reading the October Facts story for homework.]
What is dormant?
200
A complete sentence should always have a subject and a predicate. The ____________ tells you who or what a story is about.
What is the subject?
200
This word is an action word, it means to do something.
What is a verb?
200
This punctuation is used at the end of a sentence when asking a question.
What is a question mark?
300
This genre is a made up story with characters, a problem and a solution, that could also happen in real life.
What is realistic fiction?
300
This word means to share or to give to people in need; and work to make life better for others.
What is generous?
300
This is a writing skill known for when you pull a quote from a text for your writing, but put the quote in your own words.
What is paraphrasing?
300
This word means too, describe a person, place, idea, or feeling.
What is an adjective?
300
This punctuation is used at the end of a sentence when someone is showing excitement or yelling.
What is an exclamation mark?
400
This genre is a story with details about topic with true facts and evidence.
What is Non-Fiction/ Informational text?
400
This word means to show strength when things are hard; to stand up for yourself and others even if it is scary.
What is courageous?
400
A complete sentence should always have a subject and a predicate. The ____________ tells you who or what the story is about does.
What is the predicate?
400
This is the specific name to a person, place, thing, idea, or feeling; Should always be capitalized when writing or typing.
What is a proper noun?
400
This punctuation is used when someone is speaking, or using a direct quote from a text in your writing.
What are quotation marks?
500
This genre is a story about someone's life, written by the person the story is about.
What is an autobiography?
500
This word means to be brave and selfless; to inspire others to take action.
What is heroic?
500
When you add more details to your explanation of your evidence it is called ____________.
What is elaborating?
500
This word describes how someone does something or how something is done; usually ending in "ly".
(ie: The couple argued loudly.')
What is an adverb?
500
This punctuation is used when you should take a pause while reading, writing the date, and writing lists in a story.
What is a comma?