What is the first sentence of a story or essay that grabs the reader's attention called?
Hook
100
What is a summary?
It is a shortened version of your reading that includes the KEY FACTS and important details, but leaves out all the extra information.
200
Sam and Jo (were, was) at school yesterday.
were
200
Do you live (here, hear)?
here
200
What does the prefix mis mean?
bad or wrong
200
Which of the following is a good hook:
A. I'm writing about cars.
B. Have you ever wondered what it would veel like to zoom around at over 100 miles an hour while feeling the intensity of a competition?
C. Once upon a time there was a race car driver named Bill.
B
200
What is the author's purpose in the following paragraph?:
When a tornado destroys a house, there is no house left to be seen. The explosion blows it to bits. Many of the pieces of the house are sucked up into the funnel of the tornado and carried away. The rest of the pieces lie scattered on the ground. Often only a bare foundation is left where the house once stood.
To inform readers about tornados and the damage they can cause.
300
Neither the students nor the teacher (want, wants) to go to school during the summer.
wants
300
Can you (right, rite, write) (your, you're) name in cursive?
write, your
300
What do the suffixes er and or mean?
person who
300
What are the words that help one idea flow into the next idea called? HINT: Paragraphs should start with one of these
transitions
300
In the past ten years serious football injuries have risen dramatically amon high school, college, and professional players. The best way to control this problem is through changes in rules, equipment, and playing surfaces.
What is the structure of this passage?
A. cause and effect
B. compare and contrast
C. Problem and Solution
D. Chronological
C. Problem and Solution
400
Each of the characters, which look like pictures, (stands, stand) for a particular part of the person's name.
stands
400
In some countries, the fifteenth birthday is a (write, right, rite) of passage.
rite
400
Which two prefixes mean not?
il, im
400
What is a thesis statement?
One sentence that tells the reader what you will be writing about, and it states the writer's opinion. It is a map for the rest of the essay.
400
Write one fact about school and one opinion about school.
various
500
A Chinese phone book, quite different from English, Spanish, or German directories, (lists, list) names according to the number of brush strokes in the character representing the family name.
lists
500
Will you have the last (writes, rites, rights) read to you where you can (here, hear) them before (your, you're ) dead?
rites, hear, you're
500
What is the suffix in the word segregate and what does that suffix mean?
ate, means to cause or make
500
Write a STRONG thesis statement for the following topic question:
Should we have a dress code in school?
example thesis: We should have a dress code in school because some fashions can be distracting and even dangerous for students.
We should not have a dress code in school because students have the right to express themselves through the way that they dress.
500
What clue words would tell you that a paragraph is written in chronological order?