ELA - writing
The term for commas, periods, question marks, exclamation points...
What is punctuation?
The term for the reason why an author writes a text
What is author's purpose?
Name an animal adaptation.
Answers vary!
Some options: What is forming groups, migration, hibernation, camouflage, mimicry, or conserving fat and water in the body?
The lake closest to Rochester.
What is Lake Ontario?
Name two characters from Bridge to Terabithia.
What is Jess, Leslie, Maybelle, Janice Avery, Ms. Myers?
True or False: Wegmans should be capitalized.
Explain why.
What is true?
The term for how a text is built or structured?
What is text structure?
What waves do...
What is transfer energy from one place to another?
Name a mountain range in NYS.
What is Adirondack Mountains or Catskill Mountains?
Name a big change that Miss A. is making in her household hopefully soon!
What is getting a kitten?
Two techniques to add description to your writing and help the reader visualize.
What is snapshot and thoughtshot?
After a character attempts to resolve a conflict, then there is usually a _________________.
What is a solution?
The waves during an earthquake.
What are seismic waves?
Name a tradition or way the Haudenosaunee use the environment to live.
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Name the difference between a simile and a metaphor.
What is a simile uses "like" or "as" to compare and a metaphor uses "is/was"?
Name an important part of the literary essay.
What is introduction, body paragraphs, thesis, conclusion, text evidence, reasons, or transition phrases?
Name each part of THIEVES.
What is title, header, introduction, every first sentence, visuals/vocabulary, end-of-reading questions, and summary?
Name the country that won the French and Indian War.
What is Great Britain?
Name a mindfulness technique we have practiced this year.
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Something is wrong with this sentence.
Miss A. loves Tacos from silver iguana restaurant and running at cobbs hill park.
What is tacos should not be capitalized and Silver Iguana and Cobbs Hill Park should be?
Name the 5 text structures.
What is description, cause/effect, problem/solution, Sequential, and compare/contrast?
Name an internal structure of a plant.
What is ovary, stomata, chloroplasts, stoma, veins, xylem, or phloem?
Haudenosaunee means..
What is "people who build a house?"
Name ways to find the main idea of a text.
What is:
-use the author's purpose and text structure?
-add up the repeating ideas?