Context clues
"The students retained the information better when they listened"
To absorb
What is the word for the part of a sentence that tells you what the sentence is about?
Subject
What is the name of the main character in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"?
Ichabod Crane
What is first person point of view?
When the narrator is telling a story about himself.
What does retain mean?
To aborb
Only a small particle of cake was left because they were so hungry.
A little piece of something
What does "plural" mean in grammar?
Plural means more than one
What is the name of the villain in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"?
Brom Bones
What is a narrator?
The person telling the story.
What does perspective mean?
one's point of view
The dog was in paradise because he had a new bone and a warm place to sleep.
Where do the commas go in this series?
We bought eggs milk and cake at the store.
We bought eggs, milk, and cake at the store.
What was the name of the love interest in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"?
Katrina
What kind of language does third person point of view use?
They, them, she, he, and names
What does significant mean?
Of importance
DACE offered many recreational activities like basketball, volleyball, archery, and others.
An activity done for fun
Where does the apostrophe go in this word?
Ms. Flanerys class loved to play jeopardy.
Ms. Flanery's class loved to play jeopardy.
What is a comparison of the movie and the story?
The headless horseman throws his head at Ichabod
Ichabod is a schoolmaster
Ichabod is easily scared
What kind of language does second person point of view use?
You, your, you're
What does particle mean?
A small piece of something
She was a very lackadaisical student. She never wrote down her vocabulary word or did her homework.
Lazy
What is the word for the part of the sentence that tells you what the subject is doing?
Predicate
What is a difference in the movie and the story?
Ichabod likes to eat in the movie.
Ichabod is tall and skinny in the movie.
A rumor in the movie is Ichabod married a widow a few villages over.
What sort of narrator perspective is the following image?
Second person
What does influence mean?
To affect something