Author's Craft
What is a simile?
What is a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?
What is the main purpose of a heading in a text?
What is to provide information about what the following section is about?
What is a "theme" in a story?
What is the underlying message or lesson of a story?
What is the capital of the United States?
What is Washington, D.C.?
What is an antonym for 'happy'?
What is 'sad' or any other opposite emotion?
(Double Jeopardy): What is giving human qualities to non-human things?
What is giving human qualities to non-human things?
Double Jeopardy :
What does "chronological order" mean?
What is arranging events in the order they happened?
How do you find the main idea of a paragraph?
What is by identifying the most important topic and supporting details?
(Double Jeopardy): How many continents are there?
What is seven?
(Double Jeopardy): What are quotation marks used for?
What is to indicate dialogue or direct speech?
What is telling a story from the narrator's perspective using 'I' or 'we'?
What is telling a story from the narrator's perspective using 'I' or 'we'?
Define "compare and contrast."
What is finding similarities and differences?
What's the difference between main idea and details?
What is the main idea being the overall point and details supporting it?
What is the process of water turning to ice called?
What is freezing?
Name a book genre that is based on facts.
What is non-fiction?
What is a metaphor?
What is a comparison without using 'like' or 'as'?
What is a "cause and effect" structure?
What is showing how one event causes another?
How does a setting contribute to the central idea?
What is influencing the story’s mood, character development, or plot?
Name the largest planet in our solar system.
What is Jupiter?
Give an example of a compound word.
What is 'sunflower', 'notebook', 'football', etc.?
What is creating mental images through descriptive language?
What is creating mental images through descriptive language?
Name a text feature often found in non-fiction.
What are tables, graphs, or illustrations?
Why is it important to understand a character's motivation?
What is to understand the character's actions and the story’s plot?
What do plants breathe in that humans breathe out?
What is carbon dioxide?
What is the purpose of an index in a book?
What is to help locate topics or specific information in the book?