What Is This Saying?
Author's Purpose
Context Clues
Stories and Genres
Grab Bag
100
Her hair cried for Shampoo
What is her hair was dirty?
100
A comic book
What is to entertain
100
I have a MAMMOTH amount of homework. I'm not sure I will ever finish in time for class.
What is a huge amount?
100
True story that is part of person's life, written by that person
What is memoir?
100
Big dogs are (gentle, more gentle, most gentle) than small dogs.
What is more gentle?
200
My mother's anger is World War II; it cannot be stopped by an army of soldiers.
What is don't mess with my mom when she is angry.
200
Instruction booklet on how to change oil in a car
What is to educate
200
if you PROCRASTINATE any longer, you will never finish your job.
What is to delay?
200
A nonfiction book about a person's life, written by another person.
What is a biograpy?
200
What speeches are meant to do.
What is to persuade?
300
The sea lashed out in anger at the ships; unwilling to tolerate another battle.
What is the sea was choppy.
300
An article urging students to attend University of Texas
What is to Persuade
300
Homework is MANDATORY. If you don't do it, you will not pass the class.
What is required?
300
A fictional story based on a real event that has happened in history, for example, the Civil War.
What is historical fiction?
300
The young couple was able to RECONCILE and live together again.
What is come to an agreement?
400
The sun played hide and seek with the clouds.
What is it was a cloudy day.
400
A book on the Civil War
What is to inform
400
With the invention of the computer, typewriters have become OBSOLETE.
What is no longer in use?
400
A made up story about a future invention
What is science fiction?
400
Please file these letters in CHRONOLOGICAL order. I think they will be easier to find if the are arranged by date.
What is in time order?
500
Her head was spinning from all the new information
What is she couldn't comprehend all the new information.
500
Historical Fiction novel
What is to entertain?
500
In the fall, apples are everywhere in Minnesota. They are available in COPIOUS amounts.
What is plentiful?
500
A short story written in first-person about something that really happened in the author's life
What is a personal narrative?
500
When my father smiles, it is a sunset on a perfect day.
What is my father's smile makes my day?
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