This resource enables students to view information online to prove if a statement is true or false.
What is the internet?
100
These are words that have nearly the same meaning.
What are synonyms?
100
These are words that are spelled the sames, sound the same, and have different meanings.
What are homonyms?
100
This genre deals with characters and events that seem real but are created by the author.
What is realistic fiction?
200
A statement that provokes personal feelings and thoughts.
What is an opinion
200
Students can pull this resource from a library shelf to determine if a statement is true or false.
What is informational text?
200
If little is to short, sad is to ______. This is an example of antonym or synonym?
What is happy and antonym?
200
homonym or homograph?
bass: a type of fish
bass: a very low sound
What is a homograph?
200
Johns grandmother reads the morning news paper to stay current with local events. Johns grandmother is using this type of text.
What is expository?
300
Fact or Opinion: Meteorologist make thousands upon thousands of measurements of wind speed, air temperature, and barometric pressure in their efforts to predict weather.
What is a fact?
300
If Judy were ever lost in the wilderness, she could ask this person for survival tactics.
What is an expert?
300
These are words with opposite meanings?
What are antonyms?
300
These are words that are spelled the same but have different meanings and sometimes have different pronunciations.
What are homographs?
300
Misago is reading a book about President Obama's life, he is most likely reading this genre.
What is a biography?
400
Fact or opinion: The national coal strike, now into its seventh week, has caused untold hardships on the miners, their families, and the rest of the winter-weary nation
What is an opinion?
400
This step is usually first in the Scientific Method?
What is observation?
400
If weakness is to strength, idle is to _______.
What is busy?
400
This combines background knowledge with evidence in the text to come up with an idea about what the author is trying to present.
What is an inference?
400
These are amusing stories told with great exaggeration, sensory language, and bigger-than-life characters.
What are tall tales?
500
Fact or opinion: Janet Guthrie, world famous auto racer, was the least nervous driver at the Indy 500.
What is an opinion?
500
This media resource exposes viewers to current local and national events.
What is news?
500
If elated is to glad, different is to _______. This is an example of Antonym or Synonym?
What is unique and synonym?
500
This is a phrase whose meaning cannot be determined by ordinary meaning of the words that form it. Example: I had to pay "an arm and a leg" for these tennis shoes.
What is an idiom?
500
This is an extended work of fiction that contains story elements, such as setting, plot, and theme.