Word Power
What is a word that means the same thing as another word called?
What is a synonym?
Which one is an opinion?
A. Water freezes at 32 degrees
B. Pizza is the best food.
What is B?
Find the verb: "The students finished their essays."
What is finished?
What is the first paragraph of an essay called?
What is an introduction?
What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?
What is a clock?
What is a word's meaning based on the words around it called?
What is context clue?
"Schools should start later because..."
What comes after because?
What is a reason?
Which word in the sentence is the pronoun:
"Ms. Butler was so excited to teach her students ELA this year."
What is her?
Put these in the correct order:
Evidence - Claim - Reason
What is Claim - Reason - Evidence?
What has many words but never speaks?
What is book?
What is an antonym for begin?
What is end or finish?
What is evidence used for in argumentative writing?
What is to support your claim or reasons?
Find the adjective(s): "The fierce dragon protected the hidden treasure."
What is fierce?
What is hidden?
What are the main events that happen in a story called?
What is plot?
What type of word is "buzz" in this sentence?
"The bee went buzz."
What is onomatopoeia?
What does the prefix pre- mean?
What is before?
A student writes:
"Dogs are better than cats because they are more loyal."
What is the claim?
What is "dogs are better than cats"?
Which sentence uses the correct of their/there/they're?
A. They're going to the library.
B. Their going to the library.
C. There going to the library.
What is A?
What does it mean to compare and contrast two things?
What is find the similarities means to compare and differences mean to contrast?
What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
What is the letter M?
Which word has a negative connotation?
A. Confident
B. Bossy
C. Determined
What is bossy?
True or False: Your evidence should connect to your reason.
What is True?
How many nouns are in this sentence: "Jace and Jonah drove past the store and quickly parked by Chipotle."
What is 4?
What is the difference between a topic and a theme?
What is a topic is what a text is about? A theme is the lesson/message about the topic.
What is the only letter that does not appear in the name of any U.S. state?
What is the letter Q?