Reading
List one type of text structure
Description, Compare and Contrast, Order and Sequence, Cause and Effect, or Problem and Solution
Clues in the text that help the reader understand the meaning of an unknown word
Context Clues
The first paragraph of an essay.
Introduction
What is a simile?
Figurative language that uses "like" or "as" to compare one thing to another.
The two parts of a complete sentence
Subject and Predicate
Made up of evidence from the text and your personal schema
Inferences
Name four types of punctuation marks
Period, Question mark, Comma, Exclamation point, Quotation marks, Ellipses, Dash, Parentheses
How you should always be writing in your journals
Complete sentences, full paragraph (6+ sentences).
The Museum of Natural History represents what?
Answer varies. To teacher's discretion.
The meaning of the prefix Tele (example words: telescope, telephone, telepathy)
Far away, distant
Conflict
List these words in alphabetical order: clank, clammy, clades, claims, clause
clades, claims, clammy, clank, clause
Where is the thesis statement usually located?
The last sentence of the introduction.
The lesson that we learn from a story. Give an example.
Theme. The answer for an example may vary.
Antonym to the word clean
dirty
The overall message of the text, what the text is mostly about
The main idea or theme
Words to use instead of mad
angry, furious, enraged
What is the main idea of an essay?
Thesis statement
Time or Place where a story takes place
Setting
Words that sound the same but are spelled differently
Homophones
A skill that includes determining important ideas of a text and combining them to create a shorter statement.
Summarizing
Name or describe the four types of sentences (double points if you actually name them)
declarative, interrogative, exclamatory, imperative
Used to wrap up your paper.
Conclusion
Adventurous, helpful, hard-working, mean, and selfish are examples of what
Character traits
Titles, People's Names, First word in a sentence, Dates and Holidays, Locations, Product Names, The Pronoun "I"