Context Clues
$100: What does "diligent" mean in this sentence: "The diligent student stayed late to finish her project."?
Hardworking/focused.
$100: "The wind whispered through the trees" is an example of what type of figurative language?
Personification
$100: Which text structure explains why something happened and what the result was?
Cause and Effect.
$100: What is the verb in this sentence? "The golden retriever barked at the mailman."
Barked
$200: Find the synonym for "scarcity": "During the drought, there was a scarcity of water."
Lack of/shortage.
$200: Identify the simile: "He was as brave as a lion" or "He was a lion on the battlefield."
$200: Identify the simile: "He was as brave as a lion" or "He was a lion on the battlefield."
$200: A passage that lists events in the order they happened uses what structure?
Chronological Order (or Sequence).
$200: Which word(s) should be capitalized? "we visited the liberty bell in philadelphia."
We, Liberty Bell, Philadelphia.
$300: Use clues to define "peculiar": "The cat had peculiar habits, like eating pickles and sleeping in the sink."
Strange, odd, or unusual.
$300: What is the meaning of the metaphor: "The classroom was a zoo during the indoor recess."?
It was loud, chaotic, or wild.
$300: This structure highlights how two topics are alike and how they are different.
Compare and Contrast.
$300: Identify the prepositional phrase: "The book is sitting on the dusty shelf."
"On the dusty shelf."
$400: What does the suffix -less mean in the word "hopeless"?
Without (without hope).
$400: Explain the idiom: "I’m feeling a bit under the weather today."
Feeling sick or ill.
$400: A text that describes a difficulty and how it was fixed uses this structure.
Problem and Solution.
$400: Which punctuation mark is missing? "I need to buy eggs milk and bread at the store."
Commas (eggs**,** milk**,** and bread).
$500: What is the root word of "unbelievable" and what does it mean?
Root is "believe" (to accept as true).
$500: What is alliteration? Provide an example.
The repetition of the same initial consonant sound (e.g., "Peter Piper picked...").
$500: What is the difference between First-Person and Third-Person point of view?
First-person uses "I/me" (narrator is in the story); Third-person uses "he/she/they" (narrator is an observer).
$500: Fix the run-on sentence: "I went to the park it was a lot of fun."
I went to the park**, and** it was a lot of fun (or use a period/semicolon).