Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Comprehension
Academic Vocab
Genre
100
What word means when you are wrong about something?
Mistaken
100
What word means when you are very lucky?
Fortunate
100
Why does Max take Maggie's letter to Don Manuel?
He needs help reading Maggie's English writing.
100
What is the main idea of any story?
What the story is most about
100
What is a biography?
A story written by someone else about someone important.
200
When something needs to be fixed it needs __________?
Repairs
200
When you say or write something in another language?
Translate
200
How can readers tell this story is realistic fiction?
The characters have feelings like real people.
200
What are context clues?
Words around the unknown word that help with the meaning.
200
What is a folktale?
An old story passed on by mouth, and their problems are solved by themselves and not by magic.
300
Something that bothers you and causes problems
Bothersome
300
Avoiding something that is coming towards you
Dodging
300
How does Maggie get her first note from Max?
Her father brings it home to her.
300
What is a homophone?
A word that sounds the same, but is spelled differently and means something different.
300
What is a fairytale?
An old story that is passed on. Usually involves magic to solve problems, and has magical characters.
400
Throwing something with great effort
Heaving
400
Something really terrible that has happened
Catastrophe
400
How are Max and Maggie alike?
They both have hobbies.
400
What is the plot of any story?
Every story has characters and a setting. However, the plot is the beginning, middle, and the end. Also, the problem, solution, and important events that happen in between.
400
What is historical fiction?
A story that has happened in real life, but some of the details are changed.
500
To figure out a message that is difficult to understand or is written in code
Deciphered
500
What word means so much noise that it is hard to hear something.
Din
500
What can readers tell about Maggie and her classmates?
They care about other people.
500
What is a homonym?
Words that are spelled the same, but have different meanings.
500
What is nonfiction?
Based on true facts and not made up.
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