A person or animal in the story, play , or literary work.
What is a character?
100
Which statement below illustrates an opinion?
Reading is hard.
Many students believe that reading is fun.
FCAT reading will begin on April 15.
What is reading is hard?
100
Getting information from other parts of the story when there is a word you don't know is called _____________.
What is context clues?
100
What does it mean when one says that a word has multiple meanings?
What is that word can be used in more than one way?
100
A word the means the same or has ___________ meaning is called a synonym
What is similar
200
Events that occur in the story
What is plot?
200
My mom's garden has red, pink, and white roses.
What is FACT?
200
What pre-reading strategy should you do based on any text features available?
What is predict?
200
The cat dashed out of sight and I was unable to catch it.:
Dashed means
- jumped
- ran quickly
- fell
- attacked
What is ran quickly
200
Words that have opposite meanings
What are antonyms?
300
The castle sat in a moat surrounded by murky water. This sentence depicts the ___________ of the story.
What is setting?
300
Abraham Lincoln was the best president of the United States of America. What word makes this statement an opionion?
What is BEST
300
Name at least three text features.
What is title, subtitle, pictures, illustrations, text boxes, captions, etc?
300
When you compare 2 things with out using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
300
The knight was valiant, what is a synonym for valiant?
What is courageous or brave?
400
This story element can be either internal, external or both
What is CONFLICT?
400
Mesquite Texas is a city in Texas. It's population is over 20,000 people. What makes this statement a fact?
What is it can be proven?
400
He was as COOL as a fan is an example of what?
What is figurative language or (simile)?
400
Name a strategy you use when a question is asking you to use context clues.
What is replace the word in the sentence or read the sentences before and after the word?
400
Read this sentence from the passage. "The boy's muscles were puny compared to his father's". Which word means the opposite of puny as used in the sentence above?
-Strong
-Weak
-Small
What is weak?
500
Overall emotion created by the work of literature
What is MOOD or tone?
500
An opinion is something that can be ________________