1st Quarter
Poetic Language
Nonfiction
Reading Strategies
Just for Fun
100
A person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
100
Compares two unlike things using "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
100
Tells the story of a person's life.
What is a biography or autobiography?
100
An educated guess.
What is a prediction?
100
Christmas, Chanukah, and Kwanza.
What are the three big holidays celebrated in December?
200
Takes the place of a noun in a sentence.
What is a pronoun?
200
Gives human qualities to a nonhuman things.
What is personification?
200
Gives details in time order from first to last.
What is chronological order?
200
Sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell.
What is sensory language?
200
The Mayan Calendar runs out of days.
What is the cause of the end of the world on December 21st, 2012?
300
Stands for complete sentence, sentence length, answer the question, and mechanics.
What is SLAM?
300
An over-exaggeration of something.
What is a hyperbole?
300
An author's reason for writing.
What is author's purpose?
300
A tool that reader's use when reading to identify questions they may have, important ideas in the text, words they do not know, etc.
What is marking the text?
300
Bring in one box of tissues.
What is one way you can earn extra team points after winter break?
400
Can be in the past tense, present tense, or future tense.
What is a verb?
400
Paints a detailed picture in the minds of readers.
What is imagery?
400
The way an author uses words to makes ideas come alive on the page.
What is author's style?
400
A tool that is used to identify the meaning of an unknown word.
What is the Frayer Model?
400
Research project.
What is something we will be learning when we get back from winter break?
500
Expresses the state of being of someone or something.
What is a linking verb?
500
Gives poetry a musical quality and helps to create a poem's mood, tone, and meaning.
What are sound devices?
500
The general feeling that a literary work gives the reader.
What is mood?
500
Different feelings or emotions that a word brings to the reader.
What are connotations?
500
Getting a wisdom tooth removed.
What is Mrs. Bishop doing over winter break?
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