Phonics & Vowels
What are the vowels in English?
A, E, I, O, U and sometimes Y
What is a noun? What is a verb?
A noun is a person, place, thing, or animal.
A verb is an action word.
Who is Nate the Great and what does he do?
He is a boy/a detective that solves cases.
What is setting? What are characters?
Setting is where a story takes place or happens.
Characters are the people in the story.
What is a contraction?
A contraction is when you join two words by taking out letters and adding an apostrophe (').
True or False: Every word in English MUST have a vowel.
True! Every real word in English has a vowel, which is why we sometimes say that "y" is a vowel (like in the word FLY).
True or False: Every sentence in English MUST have a verb.
True! A sentence must have an action or else it is not a sentence.
Name four characters in the Nate the Great books.
Nate, Sludge, Rosamond, Annie, Fang, Oliver, Harry....
Every good story has a problem. What is it called when the problem is fixed, solved, or goes away?
The solution.
The word "didn't" is a contraction of what two words?
Did + not = didn't
How do you say these two vowels together: "ou"? And can you give one example?
They usually sound like "ow." About, couch, round, cloud...
They could also sound like "oo" (group)
They could also sound like "uh" (country)
They could also sound like "o" (four)
Name 4 adjectives that are NOT colors.
Kind, funny, friendly, silly, pretty, crazy, weird, happy, tall, short, big, small, round....
How did Nate solve the case of Annie's missing picture in "Nate the Great"?
He figured out that Annie's brother, Harry, had painted over her picture because the colors had mixed.
Every story includes 3 parts. What are they?
The beginning, middle, and end.
How do you form the contraction with the two words "will" and "not" ?
Will + not = won't
What is a digraph, and can you give an example?
A digraph is two letters combining to make a new sound.
Examples are ch, sh, ph, th, and wh.
Make one sentence using a noun, verb, and adjective.
The fat elephant ate grass.
How did Nate solve the case of his mother's missing recipe in "Nate the Great and the Monster Mess"?
He realized that the recipe was on the back of a piece of paper, where his mother wrote her shopping list.
What happens in a story, including problem and solution, is called the _____.
The plot.
Name 4 contractions that DON'T end in "t."
Many more! :)
What are consonants? How many are there?
Consonants are all of the letters in the alphabet that are NOT vowels. There are 21 (or 20, if you count Y as a vowel).
Name a word that can be both a noun AND a verb.
Answer, back, call, cut, camp, challenge, dance, fall, feel, garden, glue...
There are many! :)
In "Nate the Great and the Monster Mess," Nate found his mother's recipe for Monster Cookies. What three monsters did she make in the recipe?
(Strawberry) Draculas, (Chocolate) Frankensteins, and (Cinnamon) Werewolves.
The person who writes the story is called the ______.
The person who draws the pictures in the story is called the ______.
The person who writes the story is called the AUTHOR.
The person who draws the pictures in the story is called the ILLUSTRATOR.
Contractions use this symbol: '
What is it called, and how do you spell it?
It's an APOSTROPHE.