The where and when of a story.
What is setting?
She was as busy as a bee.
What is a simile?
The lost campers SWELTERED in the heat of the desert sun.
A. ate
B. burned
C. slept
D. sunbathed
What is B. burned?
The words that explain what a picture shows.
What is the caption?
Being on time for school can be very difficult. Students are usually tired from staying up late on phones, games, and computers. So, students are missing their bus and being late for school. I suggest each student receives their own alarm clock, so they can wake up in time for school.
What is the text structure of the passage?
What is problem and solution.
What does this 5 step saying help us to do?
Somebody
Wanted
But
So
Then
What is write a summary?
The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky.
What is a personification?
We got a GLIMPSE of the boat as it zipped across the lake.
A. stay away
B. soak with water
C. quick look
D. come near
What is C. quick look?
The part of a nonfiction book that defines words.
What is a glossary?
List the conjunctions.
What is for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so (fanboys)
The way the story makes the reader feel.
What is the mood?
Her home was a prison.
What is a metaphor?
Mara was feeling APPREHENSIVE about the camping trip. She had never slept in a tent before. What if there were bears or mountain lions?
A. worried
B. angry
C. in pain
D. excited
What is A. worried?
The title of an article
What is the heading?
List 5 common nouns & 5 proper nouns.
Answers may vary.
The lesson or advice learned in a story.
What is moral/theme?
Carrie's cactus clawed her couch, creating chaos.
What is alliteration?
The shallow river was usually easy for hikers to wade across. However, the heavy rains had turned it into a rushing torrent too TREACHEROUS to cross.
A. muddy
B. wet
C. dangerous
D. foggy
What is C. dangerous?
A picture with labeled parts
What is a diagram?
The three main author's purposes.
What is to persuade, to inform, and entertain.
List one character trait to describe Darrel Mercer from The Bully and one detail from the text to support your answer.
Answers vary.
Answers vary
The GARRULOUS boy rambled on continuously as he told his mother about his day at school.
A. quiet
B. secretive
C. talkative
D. exhausted
What is C. talkative?
Shows the location of a place in the world.
What is a map?
What is the name of the Avid strategy where you number the lines in a passage, box out paragraphs, and circle key words?
What is marking the text.