Text Features
The words that describe a photograph.
What is a caption?
Ms. Bruck's sons' names.
Who are Jameson and Jackson?
Isaiah has a big ant farm. He decided to sell some of his ants. He started with 965 ants. He sold 213. Isaiah now has this many ants.
What is 752 ants?
Restate the following question:
How did Harry feel after looking into the pensieve and finding out the truth?
After looking into the pensieve and finding out the truth, Harry felt _____________.
This book by Louis Sachar is about a camp for troubled boys and has a movie starring Shia LaBeouf.
What is Holes?
Divides the text into sections and hints at what the sections will be about.
What are headings?
The type of conflict when Myra cannot decide who to marry.
What is character vs. self?
In the soccer game, Marquis scored 2 more points than Julian but 4 fewer points than Semaj. List the points in order if Marquis scored 6 points.
What is Julian 4 points, Marquis 6 points, and Semaj 10 points?
Restate the following question:
What two inventions made it faster to add up the cost of groceries?
Two inventions that made it faster to add up the cost of groceries were ___________________________ and _____________________________________.
This book is written by Katherine Paterson and is about best friends, an imaginary kingdom in which they rule, and tragic loss.
What is Bridge to Terabithia?
Located in the back of a book with topics listed by page numbers.
What is an index?
The type of conflict when Stanley gets thirsty from digging holes in the hot sun.
What is character vs nature?
Destiny has 3 bags with the same amount of marbles in each, totaling 12 marbles. Lissandra has 3 bags with the same amount of marbles in each, totaling 18 marbles. How many more marbles does Lissandra have in each bag?
Lissandra has 2 more marbles in each bag.
Restate the following question:Sometimes an author will give human-like qualities or traits to things in a story that aren't human. This writing technique is called “anthropomorphization.” Do the authors of one or both of these stories use this technique? Use evidence from the stories to support your answer.
The authors of ___________ and __________ both use the technique of anthropomorphization to give human-like qualities to animals and plants in their stories.
This historical fiction book is written by John Boyne and is about friendship and the holocaust.
What is The Boy in the Striped Pajamas?
A feature that explains data or a breakdown of information.
What is a graph? (Chart is also acceptable.)
When you talk to this person, who is born on St. Patrick's Day, you tell her that Large Marge sent you.
Who is Ms. Pat?
At lunchtime, an ice cream parlor served 6 ¼ scoops of chocolate ice cream, 5 ¾ scoops of vanilla and 2 ¾ scoops of strawberry. How many scoops of ice cream did the parlor serve in total?
What is 14 3/4 scoops of ice cream?
Restate the following:
Contrast the designs on the horse armor with the decoration on the cuirassier armor.
The design on the horse armor differs from the decoration on the cuirassier armor by ______________________________________.
This book was written by Yann Martel and is about a boy's struggle for survival alone at sea.
What is Life of Pi?
The box that contains an explanation of symbols used on a map.
What is a legend or a key?
The name of any of the secretaries in the office.
Double points for 2, triple points for 3, quadruple points for all 4.
Who is Ms. Hogan, Ms. Flores, Ms. Ms. Reid Bey, Ms. Huertas?
To make the Leaning Tower of Pisa from spaghetti, Mrs. Gorham bought 2.5 lbs. of spaghetti. Her students were able to make 10 leaning towers in total. How many pounds of spaghetti does it take to make 1 leaning tower?
What is .25 or 1/4 lb of spaghetti?
Restate the following questions:What do “Ceremonial Teahouse: Sunkaraku” and “Tea Time!” have in common? How do they differ?
THIS IS A 500 POINT QUESTION- THINK ABOUT IT BEFORE YOU ANSWER!
"Ceremonial Teahouse: Sunkaraku" shares some similarities with "Tea Time". In the text ________
______________________. However, not everything is the same between the two texts. One major difference is when ________________________.
This book was written by Peter Benchley, is set in Amity Island and is by far Ms. Gielda's favorite movie. I reread the book every summer during a certain (big hint) week in July.
What is Jaws?