Grammar and Punctuation
Plot Hill
Active Reading Strategies
Vocabulary
Exploration
100
You use these little marks to show that a character is speaking.
What are quotation marks?
100
The solution to the problem.
What is the resolution?
100
Relating to yourself, other texts, and to the world while reading.
What is making connections?
100
A long journey or trip.
What is a voyage?
100
"Discovered" America, but thought he was in West India.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
200
You must do this at the beginning of every sentence you write!
What is capitalize?
200
The most exciting and highest point of the story.
What is the climax?
200
When using this skill, you can't find the answer directly in the text, you must instead read between the lines.
What is making inferences?
200
A person who searches for or examines something closely.
What is an explorer?
200
The country that Columbus explored for.
What is Spain?
300
You must do this at the beginning of every paragraphs you write.
What is indent?
300
When the conflict builds and builds, leading to the climax of the story.
What is the rising action?
300
Making logical guesses about what you think will happen in the story.
What is making predictions?
300
To take or steal.
What is loot?
300
Discovered the Hudson River.
Who is Henry Hudson?
400
A mark that tells the reader to pause.
What is a comma?
400
This part of the story introduces the characters, the setting, and sometimes, the conflict as well.
What is the exposition?
400
Something we do while reading when we don't really understand something in the book.
What is asking questions?
400
An instrument that measures the sun or stars.
What is an astrolabe?
400
Lost at sea, never returned after his men staged a mutiny against him.
Who is Henry Hudson?
500
What comes after the dialogue in storytelling (i.e., "he said.")
What is the dialogue tag?
500
When the story begins to "calm down". Most action has ended, leading the the resolution.
What is the falling action?
500
Creating the movie in your head while reading.
What is visualizing?
500
To recall past experiences.
What is to reminisce?
500
The first island that Columbus spotted.
What is San Salvador?
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