Anne Frank
King Midas
I Can Decode Long Words
Reading Terms
Author's Purpose
100

This is the main setting of Anne Frank.

What is Germany?

100

This was King Midas' wish?

What is for everything he touched to turn to gold?

100

Pronounce this word........

believable

What is believable?
100

This is the location and time of a story.

What is the setting?
100

The department of Fish and Wildlife gives each participating classroom 500 salmon eggs.  When the eggs hatch, the children care for the baby salmon and learn about their life cycle.  When the salmon are big enough, the class goes on a field trip to release the salmon into a stream or river.  This is the main idea of this paragraph.

What is School children are raising salmon?

200

This is the person that hated the Jews.

Who was Adolf Hitler?
200

This is when Midas realized he didn't make a good wish.

What is when he tried to eat food?

200

Pronounce this word......

irregular

What is irregular?
200

This is a short version of the story that includes the important details

What is the summary?

200

One day in Switzerland a man names George de Mestral decided to take his dog for a walk.  When he got back to his house, he saw that there were many small burrs clinging to his dog's fur.  He examined how the burrs were sticking under a microscope and ended up using what he saw to invent Velcro!

What is The idea for velcro came from nature?

300
These are differences between Anne's parents.
What is Otto was skinny and liked to talk.  Edith was plump and was quiet?
300

When reading a play, this is how you should read.

What is reading with expression?

300

Pronounce this word.......

amphibian

What is amphibian?
300

A group of words that mean something else that use like or as.

What are similes?


300

The Atacama Desert is located on a plateau in northern Chile.  It almost never rains in the Atacama Desert, in fact there are some areas of the desert where rainfall has never been recorded.  The average yearly rainfall in Atacama is just 1 millimeter.  Nowhere else on earth is dryer than the Atacama Desert!

What is  The Atacama Desert is the driest place on Earth?

400
This is what killed Anne and her sister, Margo.

What is typhus?

400

This is how King Midas was able to get rid of his wish.

What is he had to bathe in the river?

400

Pronounce this word?


canoes

What is canoes?

400

These are the terms used to describe the differences and similarities in characters.

What are compare and contrast?

400

Troglobites live in total darkness for their entire lives.  They live in caves and never come out.  Some troglobites do not even have eyes!  Troglobites include spiders, flatworms, cave fish and blind salamanders.

What is Animals that live deep in a cave are called troglobites?

500

This is the age Anne was when she died.  

What is 16 years old?

500

This character granted the king his wish.

Who was Dionysus?

500

Pronounce this word.

exaggerated

What is exaggerated?
500

This is the key point or message that the author is trying to communicate to the reader.

What is the main idea?

500

Strong magnets are put into some roller coasters.  They are also put into the end of the track.  As the roller coaster approaches the end of the track, the attracting forces of the magnet bring the coaster to a gentle stop.

What is Some roller coasters use magnets to make them stop?

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