Reading
What is the central idea of a text?
What the text is mostly about
What are these: " "
Quotation marks
What does the Greek root aqua mean?
a. water
b. air
A. water
How many days are in a week?
7
Christopher, my little brother, annoys me every day. What part of speech is the word "annoys"?
Verb
-uses the words "he", "she", or "they" to tell a story.
- is told by someone who is not part of the story1st or 3rd person point of view
Third-person point of view
What names a person, place, thing or idea?
nouns
The prefix bi- in bicycle means that a bicycle has ___ wheels.
Two or 2
Some of you are a decade old.
How long is a decade?
10 years
He slowly ran up the hill at the end of practice. What part of speech is "slowly"?
adverb
What is wrong with this sentence?
the boy ran toward the building when he heard the noise.
the 't' in the needs to be capitalized
What word is a verb in the following sentence?
Tony slithered quietly down the hallway.
slithered
What does the prefix 'un' mean?
not
How many days are in a leap year?
366
She will yell if you make her mad. What part of speech is "She"?
pronoun
What is the theme of this paragraph?
Sadie was kicking a soccer ball in the house and broke her mom's expensive vase. The vase was shattered into a million pieces. She went to her mom and told her what she had done even though she knew she'd be punished.
The theme is: Honesty
Emily is selective about what she eats. What does selective mean?
choosy; picky
The text structure what put events in order is know as ___________.
a. compare and contrast
b. sequence or chronological
c. problem and solution
b. sequence or chronological
What does the word " gingerly" mean?
cautiously; timidly
My brown puppy loves to give kisses. What part of speech is "brown"?
adjective
What is narrative writing also called?
story writing
An exclamatory sentence ends with a/an....
Exclamation point
The test was a piece of cake. What does the idiom "piece of cake " mean?
It was easy.
What does the simile " She's an angel" mean?
She was really nice; sweet; kind or well behaved
The cat hid under the couch from the small child with sticky fingers. What part of speech is "under"?
preposition