All About Writing
"Zoo Birthday Cakes" Comprehension
"Zoo Birthday Cakes" Vocabulary
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"Amazon's New Alexa Feature"
Comprehension
"Amazon's New Alexa Feature"
Vocabulary
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100

Each step of the writing process in writing class

What is the prewrite, first draft, second draft, and final draft?
100

What some zoos create for their animals on their birthdays

What is cake?

100

He celebrated his 60th birthday with a treat made of watermelon, grapes, kiwi, sweet potato, broccoli, and ___ flowers. 

What is edible?

100

The company that invented Alexa

What is Amazon?

100

"Alexa, please tell me what 5 plus 7 is," a kid might say. The voice will ___ the right answer. 

What is supply?

200

The word that names the thing you will write about for an essay

What is a prompt?

200

The birthday cakes can be a source of this for the animals

What is nutrition?

200

She said that keeping an animal in ___ comes at a loss to that animal.

What is confinement?

200

The name of the device that uses Alexa

What is Echo?

200

A group of them is ___ about how people use the device. They worry that rudely commanding Alexa to do something sends the wrong message. 

What is concerned?

300

The sentence that your entire essay will be about

What is a thesis statement?

300

People that do not like zoos

What are (animal rights) activists? 

300

It motivates the animal to problem-solve, try new tastes or textures and make the animal ___ and satisfied. 

What is engaged?

300

The thing that Echo speakers cannot recognize

What is voice?

300

Parents can also ___ their kids' Alexa activity. The activity appears on a dashboard they download.

What is track?

400

What you use to grab your reader's attention

What is a hook?

400

People that take care of animals at zoos

What are keepers?

400

The zoo has since made Fiona a giant fruit cake every year. Thousands of fans, at the zoo and online, watch her ___ it. 

What is devour?

400
The name of the feature that Alexa uses to teach kids to be polite

What is the "magic word" feature?

400

For that reason, FreeTime is not that ___ for an Echo placed in a common area of the home. It is probably best for an Echo in a kid's bedroom or playroom. 

What is practical?

500

The six traits of writing

What are ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions?

500

The vegetable used to make Yam's cake's candles

What is kale?

500

"Showing an animal is an individual with a name and a particular age that should be celebrated allows people to ___ an animal," she said. 

What is value?

500

Some people think this type of time is being taken away as a result of smart devices.

What is family time?

500
Devices like Alexa keep people from spending time face-to-face, Golin says. They ___ kids from getting the kind of play that they "need to grow and thrive." 

What is prevent?

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