Good Reader Skills
Miscellaneous ELA Topics
Punctuation
Grammar
Read My Story
100
The lesson learned from a story or passage.
What is theme?
100
What I know plus what I read.
What is inference
100
Usually placed at the end of an imperative or a declarative sentence.
What is a period?
100
A part of speech which describes a person, place or thing.
What is an Adjective?
100
Celebration of a young lady growing into adulthood.
What is a quinceanera?
200
Placing the major events of a story in order from beginning to end.
What is sequencing?
200
A warning or indication of a future event in literature.
What is foreshadowing?
200
After an interrogative sentence, you better place me at the end...
What is a question mark?
200
Along with a complete thought, these are needed to make a complete sentence.
What is a subject and a predicate?
200
"All mimsy were the borogroves, and the mome raths outgrabe..."
What is Jabberwocky?
300
The plot thickens...
What is rising action?
300
The three reasons why an author composes a piece of literature.
What is author's purpose? Persuade, Entertain and Inform
300
You normally use us to show someone's exact words spoken in a story.
What are quotation marks?
300
A sentence that is a missing a subject, a predicate or both.
What is a fragment?
300
Caesar, Rufus, Glaucus Pansa
What is "The Dog of Pompeii"?
400
The problem that a character faces in a story.
What is conflict?
400
Do this when you put what you read into context. Shows how the story or passage relates to my life.
What is making connections?
400
Usually used to show a series or maybe a pause in a sentence.
What is a comma?
400
The word "clown" in the sentence, "The big, silly, goofy-looking clown had huge feet".
What is the simple subject?
400
"If seven maids with seven mops swept it for half a year..."
What is "The Walrus and the Carpenter"?
500
The events that make up a story or, in other words... Exposition, Conflict, Rising Action, Climax and Resolution.
What is the plot?
500
Putting the story in my own words.
What is summarizing?
500
I am used when you want to join two words.
What is a hyphen?
500
The phrase "walked quietly to the lunchroom" in the sentence, "My sixth grade class walked quietly to the lunchroom".
What is the predicate?
500
Granny Pearce, Bert and Don
What is Lob's Girl?
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