Fiction
Prefixes
Suffixes
Nonfiction
Poetry
100

The author's purpose in a fiction text is?

What is to entertain me?

100

This word means to do something again.

What is the word redo?

100

This word means I was acted without care.

What is careless?

100

Placed under a photograph, this gives more information about a subject?

What is a caption?

100

A group of lines in a poem.

What are stanzas?

200

How can I explain a quick summary of a story?

What is somebody wanted, but, so then, what?

200

This word means that you do not trust someone.

What is distrust?

200

Think about the meaning of the suffix -er. 

What is the meaning of bigger as used below?

Today's spaceships have a bigger menu.

What is more big?

200

An author uses the words first, next, last and a timeline in the text.  What text structure are they using to organize their information?

What is chronological order?

200

This is an overexaggerated phrase.

My head is going to explode!


What is hyperbole?

300

What words can show first person point of view?

What is I, me, we, my, us, ours, or we?

300

This word means someone is not able to be liked.

What is unlikeable?

300

I took my time on the test and did my best.  I checked all my answer with great care. 

What is careful?

300

Alligators are large reptiles. They weigh 1,000 pounds.
Alligators have short legs and strong tails. Their big mouths are filled with sharp, pointy teeth.

What is the central idea of this text?

What is information about an alligator's body?

300

The stars at night

Are big and bright

What is rhyme?

400

What is the meaning of the word mumbled?

What is to speak softly?

400

The word is not spelled correctly.

What is misspelled?

400

My class helps clean the room neatly at the end of each day.

What is helpful?

400

What is an author's purpose in nonfiction text?

What is to inform or persuade me?

400

Sensory words in poetry describes...

What is what you see, taste, smell, hear, touch?

500

What is an internal character trait of Brian from the Invisible Boy?

What is he felt lonely?

What is he is friendly?

What is he is creative?

500

I paid for the new Diary of a Wimpy kid before it came out so it could be sent to me as soon as it was released.

What is prepay?

500

If we go to the library weekly, how many times do we go each week?

What is one time a week?

500

The effect is, my plant perished.

What is the cause?

What is you did not water your plant?

(or give sunlight or healthy soil are other options)

500

When you compare something to another person, place, or thing and use the word like.

Children smell like sunshine and puppy dogs after coming in from recess.

What is a simile?

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