Let's See What You've Got!
Bring It On!
Busy Being AWESOME!!!
Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now!
You're Gonna Hear Us Roar!
100
Taking one word and shortening it.
What is an abbreviation?
100
Taking a phrase or group of words and shortening it to just the first letters of each word.
What is an acronym?
100
Combining two separate words into one new word.
What is a compound word?
100
Two words that sound the same but are spelled differently and have different meanings.
What are homophones?
100
Two words that sound the same and are spelled the same but mean different things.
What are homographs?
200
Stating things that are different from each other.
What is contrasting?
200
Words that take the place of a proper noun.
What are pronouns?
200
A person, place or thing that would start with a capital letter.
What is a proper noun?
200
Shortening two words using an apostrophe at the end. Example: can not = can't
What are contractions?
200
What happens due to a cause in a story.
What is an effect?
300
The "what is wrong" in a story.
What is the problem?
300
This is the fancy name for the different types of stories.
What is a genre?
300
The statements in a story that help make the main idea stronger.
What are supporting details?
300
How the problem in a story gets fixed.
What is the solution?
300
This is the genre of story where the book is written about a person and is also by that same person.
What is an autobiography?
400
These are the things in non-fiction books that give you extra information about the text on the page. Examples: captions, bold print, illustrations.
What are text features?
400
These are the types of questions that you must use your head to answer in a story because the answers are not right in the story.
What are thick questions?
400
Your brain should be making these when you read, sort of like a movie in your head.
What are mental images?
400
This is the type of story that is not true.
What is fiction?
400
These are the three types of reasons an author writes a story.
What are to persuade, to inform and to entertain? (PIE)
500
The reason an author writes a story is called this.
What is the author's purpose?
500
This something that can be proven to be true.
What is a fact?
500
The three types of connections a reader can make to a story when reading it.
What are text-to-text, text-to-self and text-to-world?
500
When you tell a story to someone but you do not tell every detail, you only tell the important parts.
What is summarizing?
500
This is something that can not be proven to be true and is usually how a person feels about something.
What is an opinion?
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