Parts of Speech
What is it called when you add something to the end of a word to change its meaning. For example: -ion, -or, ly?
What is a Suffix?
This spelling of the word "there/their/they're" belongs in the blank: "The students forgot ______ backpacks on the school bus."
What is t-h-e-i-r?
Many early societies, like Ancient Egypt or the Indus Valley, chose to settle right next to these natural features for drinking water and farming.
What is a river?
What are the three main groups of the indigenous cultures?
What is Metis, Inuit and First nations?
Celebrated with parades, fireworks, and wearing red and white, this patriotic holiday lands right in the middle of summer on July 1st.
What is Canada day?
This is the pronoun in the following sentence: "Don't touch that guitar, it is mine!"
What is mine
When you say, "This classroom is an icebox!" you are using this type of figurative language that compares two things directly without using the words "like" or "as."
What is a metaphor?
In ancient Rome and Greece, the social structure was often shaped like this geometric object, with a single ruler at the tiny top and many peasants or enslaved people at the wide bottom.
What is a pyramid?
This is the title given to the leader of the entire Canadian federal government.
What is a Prime Minister?
This famous 14-book graphic novel series by Dav Pilkey features a heroic dog-headed police officer who fights crime against his rival, Petey the Cat.
What is Dog Man?
Adverbs are famous for describing how an action happens, and they very frequently end in these two letters
What is -ly
The two words cautious and reckless have a specific type of word relationship. What is the difference of them?
What is an antonym?
Canada is made up of ten of these, which share power with the federal government, plus three northern territories.
What are provinces?
During a federal election, Canadian citizens who are at least this age have the right to cast a ballot and vote
What is 18 years old?
Taking place on September 30th, this important national day encourages Canadians to wear orange shirts to recognize and reflect on the history and legacy of residential schools.
What is Truth and Reconciliation Day?
In the phrase "The running water flooded the kitchen," the word running is an -ing verb acting as this part of speech.
What is an adjective?
A bat can fly in the night sky, or it can be swung at a baseball. Because it is spelled the exact same way but has two different meanings, it is called this.
What is a homophone?
Many First Nations of the Eastern Woodlands, like the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois), lived in these large, permanent wooden homes that could hold several families.
What are longhouses?
This traditional, snowy shelter was used by the Inuit in the Arctic region during winter hunting trips.
What is an Igloo?
"I have keys but open no locks. I have space but no room. You can enter, but you can't go outside. What am I?"
What is a keyboard?
Kids often use the acronym FANBOYS to remember this specific group of conjunctions that connect equal parts of a sentence.
What are conjunctions?
The Greek root graph means "to write." Therefore, this 10-letter vocabulary word literally means a life story written by the person who lived it.
What is an audiobiography?
This specific region on the west coast of Canada is famous for its towering mountain ranges (like the Rockies) and mild, rainy maritime climate.
What is the western cordilera?
Woven from white and purple shell beads, these physical belts were created by the Haudenosaunee and other Eastern Woodlands nations to record important treaties, history, and official agreements.
What is a wampum belt?
When is Ms. Moia's Birthday
What is August 1st?