What does it mean?
What is BME
What is wrong with the following sentence?
i packed my lunch for school
The "i" should be capitalized
The sentence needs a period
What is a verb?
an action word
What is a synonym for the word struck?
hit
What is author's purpose?
Why the author writes a story.
PIE
PIE stands for three of the author's purposes. They stand for persuade, inform, and entertain.
Which sentence is a complete sentence?
Tania loves third grade!
Played kickball at recess.
Tania loves third grade!
Every sentence must have these two things.
First letter capitalized and punctuation at the end.
Which word is an antonym for close in the following sentence?
The children stood so close together.
empty
angry
distant
distant
Kindness
Courage
Never give up
These are all examples of what?
Author's Message
TRRAP
TRRAP is the strategy for reading passages. It stands for:
Highlight the title, find the genre and purpose
Read the questions
Read and reread the passage
Answer the questions
Prove your answers
What is the noun/s in this sentence?
Jack neatly stacked the magazines.
Jack
Magazines
When you use clues to help you understand an unknown word it is called what?
Context clues
Ash thought he had as much right to stand in that place as Maple.
Which dictionary entry matches the way the word right is used above?
1. a claim to fair and equal treatment
2. an ability or privilege granted by law
1. a claim to fair and equal treatment
A story that is organized in order of events
First-Next-Then-Last
Chronological
Making a good guess using schema and evidence
Inference
How do you make the word dress plural
Add "es" to the end of the word
dresses
Proper nouns are special because...
They are capitalized
Indoor climbing structures have become popular.
What is the meaning of the word structure?
conflicts
organizations
formations
contests
formations
Adding un- to the word usual makes the word unusual. What does unusual mean?
not normal
When a story reminds you of another book, event, or something happening in the world.
When is an apostrophe used? (2 answers)
To show possession (Susan's)
To combine two words and make a contraction (can't)
What are these words?
enormous- big
Synonyms
These workers navigate through multiple levels of games.
What is the meaning of the word navigate?
to follow a map
to make one's way over or through something
move between areas of a computer program
move between areas of a computer program
What is a summary?
A short retelling/paraphrase of a story/event. Includes somebody, wanted, but, so then