Punctuation
Literary Elements
Reading
Strategies
Parts of Speech
Genres
100
You put this at the end of declarative sentences
What is a period
100
All stories have one of these: a beginning, middle end, problem and solution
What is a plot?
100
This book helps you learn about a word, besides just its meaning
What is a dictionary?
100
A person, place or thing is called this
What is a noun?
100
A true story about a real person is called this
What is a biography?
200
Use this to separate the date and the year
What is a comma
200
This tells you where and when the action takes place
What is setting
200
This book is useful when you want just the right word for your writing.
What is a thesaurus?
200
A word that can replace a noun is called this.
What is a pronoun?
200
A story that cannot possible be true and often has magic in it is called this.
What is fantasy?
300
Use this when you want to show excitement or strong feeling.
What is an exclamation point?
300
The people or animals that make the story happen
What are characters?
300
When you can figure out the meaning of a word from information in the rest of the sentence you use this.
What is a context clue?
300
The words that show action or state of being
What are verbs?
300
Information can be learned from reading this type of literature
What is non-fiction?
400
Use this when you have a long list
What is a colon?
400
In poetry, the same beginning sound appears many times.
What is alliteration?
400
Letters at the beginning or end of a word help you to understand its meaning
What are suffixes?
400
These littel words connect things.
What are conjunctions?
400
These stories often start with "Once upon a time.."
What is a fairy tale?
500
Use this to separate independent clauses.
What is a semi-colon?
500
THis kind of poem has a prescribed number of syllables in each of its lines.
What is Haiku?
500
Making a guess based on what you know and what has already happened is what this is.
What is infer?
500
This word describes a noun.
What is an adjective?
500
Stories that teach us a lesson or how to behave and often have talking animals are called this.
What are folktales
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