Useful Reading Stuff
a made-up story
What is fiction?
She was as red as a tomato.
What is a simile?
a person, place or thing
What is a noun?
Triangle
What is a polygon with 3 sides?
the answer when we add
What is the sum?
facts and information
What is non fiction?
Marty was a beast in the soccer game.
What is a metaphor?
an action word
What is a verb?
Quadrilateral
What is a shape with 4 sides?
the answer when we subtract
What is the difference?
what a text is mostly about
What is the main idea?
It was raining cats and dogs.
What is an idiom?
a word that describes a noun
What is an adjective?
Polygon
What is a shape with 3 or more straight sides that all connect?
the answer when we multiply
What is the product?
a telling of only the KEY events in a story
What is a summary?
a simile
What is...?
(any made up simile)
but, because, or, and,
What is a conjunction?
90 degrees.
What is a right angle?
the answer when we divide
What is the quotient?
the beginning of the plot
What is exposition?
The wind whispered in the night.
What is personification?
I, he, she, they, we
What is a pronoun?
Less than 90 degrees.
What is an acute angle?
a letter that stands for a number in algebra
for example; 52 + X = 58
What is a variable?