Parts of Speech
Genres
Strategies
Verbs
Adjectives
100
This type of word DESCRIBES a person, place, or thing.
What is an adjective?
100
This can be a book or an article and gives the reader factual information.
What is non-fiction/informational?
100
This strategy reminds you how to start every open response question.
What is steal and slide?
100
Find the verb in the following sentence: The girl caught the ball.
What is caught?
100
Find the adjective in the following sentence: He walked on a stone wall.
What is stone?
200
This type of word is a person, place, or thing that is specific and always capitalized.
What is a proper noun?
200
This genre includes stanzas and lines.
What is poetry?
200
This strategy helps you answer multiple choice questions by getting rid of the choices that you know can't be right first.
What is the process of elimination?
200
Find the verb in the following sentence: When will the rain stop?
What is stop?
200
Find the adjective in the following sentence: She wore a red sweater.
What is red?
300
This type of word is when two words come together to form a new word with a new meaning.
What is a compound word?
300
This genre tends to use talking animals to teach a moral or lesson in a short story.
What is a fable?
300
This strategy is used when you need to read something quickly in order to get the main idea.
What is skimming?
300
Find the verbs in the following sentence: He stirred the batter and baked the cake.
What are stirred and baked?
300
Find the adjectives in the following sentence: He bought three yellow bananas.
What are three and yellow?
400
This type of word DESCRIBES action words and typically ends in -ly.
What is an adverb?
400
This genre includes stories that are not true and are made up by the author.
What is fiction?
400
This strategy is used when you need to read something quickly to find specific information.
What is scanning?
400
Find the verbs in the following sentence: She skis down the hill and flies off the jump.
What are skis and flies?
400
Find the adjectives in the following sentence: She picked up the orange and put it in the big, brown bin.
What are big and brown?
500
This type of word is formed when combining two words with an apostrophe o make the word shorter.
What is a contraction?
500
This genre uses stories to tell how certain things began or came to be in different cultures.
What is a folktale or legend?
500
This strategy is used in order to prove to yourself that your answer is correct.
What is going back into the text and underlining evidence?
500
Find the verbs in the following sentence: We went to the store and bought lots of vegetables.
What are went and bought?
500
Find the adjectives in the following sentence: The two sisters threw the giant ball to each other.
What are two and giant?
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