Context Clues
Text Features
Character's Perspective
Figurative Language
Mystery ????
100
Silly:
What are you most looking forward to this break?
:)
100
Name 2 text features you may see in a non-fiction text
Heading, caption, illustration, title, bolded words, graph, map, text box, table of contents, photograph
100
What is Character's Perspective?
What a character thinks or feels about a topic.
100
What is a hyperbole?
A figure of speech that exaggerates something
100
Silly:
Who is Ms. McDonald Married to??
Harry Styles :)
200
Read the sentence below, then determine the meaning of the word 'Perpetually'.
Claire was perpetually late, even her mom was telling her she needed to be more on time!
Always, consistently
200
Caption
200
Read the text below. What is Ms. McDonald's perspective on coffee?
Ms. McDonald sipped her coffee. She was so sad it was almost gone. It was her favorite drink too, a chai latte. Maybe she would go back to Starbucks to get another
She loves her coffee
200
Read the text below. What is the purpose of the simile?
The movement of the train rocked me like a lullaby. I closed my eyes to the dusty countryside and imagined the sign I knew only from stories.
To show that the train makes the character sleepy.
200
What is theme?
The moral of the story, or the lesson the character learned.
300
Read the sentence below, then find the meaning of the word Botanist.
As a botanist, James was always looking at different kinds of plants and trees, wondering how they got their beautiful colors
A scientist who studies plants
300
What is the purpose of a heading?
To separate two pieces of text, and give the reader an idea of what the chunk of text will be about
300
Read the text below. What is the character's perspective on sky diving.
I looked down from the airplane and wiped the sweat from my face. The world looked tiny from up there. My knees started trembling. Was I really going to jump? My heart pounded as I stood at the plane's open door.
She thinks sky diving is scary and is nervous
300
Which phrase below includes a simile
At once, a bright beam of green light sprayed from the dial. It lit up the room and their young faces, giving them a sickly look. With eyes as wide and round as plates, the kids stared at each other through the light.
"Eyes as wide and round as plates"
300
What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor?
Simile uses word "Like" or "as" to compare 2 things, metaphor does not use those words, but compares 2 things
400
Read the sentence blow, then determine the meaning of the word 'Descend'.
Skydiving was so scary! Descending to the ground from a plane high in the sky was too much for Mrs. Robles to do!
falling, going lower, going down
400
What text feature gives definitions of vocabulary words at the back of the book?
Glossary
400
Read the text below, then determine the character's perspective.
After several hours, we were finally getting close to Uncle Henry's. My brother and I had spent most of the time complaining in the back seat. I think we were bored because there was nothing to look at but trees. I couldn't wait to get out of that car!
The character does not want to be in the car for this long. She is bored and cranky
400
Read the text below. Then determine what the metaphor means.
There was once a very large lake here, the largest lake in Texas. That was over a hundred years ago. There used to be a town of Green Lake as well. The town shriveled and dried up along with the lake, and the people who lived there.
It means that the town failed and is not doing well.
400
What does Conflict mean in a story's plot?
The problem that needs to be solved
500
Read the text below, then determine the meaning of the word' Diabolical'
Dr. Drakon was diabolical. He was never nice, he was plotting to end the world, and he had never been seen smiling!
Evil or mean
500
What is this text feature, AND what does it do?
Timeline, it gives events in the order that they happened.
500
Silly:
Write a few sentences from the perspective of a frog who is angry at his best friend
:)
500
Create a sentence that uses a simile and uses it correctly!
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500
What does the prefix "Mis" mean. Give one word that has that prefix.
Mis- to do wrong
Misspell, mispronounce, misspeak.