In "Jose floated down the sidewalk," floated is a more descriptive use of this very common verb
What is walked.
100
The imaginary boundary line between countries, states, even cities!
What is a border?
100
This a word that can replace a noun in sentences once the noun has been used.
What is a pronoun?
100
The metaphor Jose used when he knew he would not reach his dream of becoming an artist in New York.
What is New York is a cemetery?
100
How the author shows us that Jose was touched by music at a very early age at his grandmother's house.
What is telling about the pet canary that sang while he ate breakfast?
200
Small differences in the meanings of words that help authors choose the perfect word, so readers can clearly picture what is happening in a passage.
What are shades of meaning?
200
When we did this around the SE United States, it was a fantastic sightseeing trip!
What is toured?
200
This is a noun that has been replaced by a pronoun in a sentence" (example the noun replaced by the pronoun "it:" Nick brought the blue frindle to school, so it belongs to him.
What is an antecedent?
200
How can you change Jose's metaphor that New York is "a jungle of stone" into a simile.
What is New York is like a jungle of stone?
200
When civil war broke out and raged on in Culiakahn, Mexico, what happened to Jose's family?
What is they moved to Nogales with the hope of getting into the United States?
300
Common verb that these words are "shades of meaning:" glided, shuffled, stomped, sauntered, tip-toed
What is to walk?
300
The doves you hear on summer mornings sound so sorrowful, or this.
What is mournful?
300
________________ markers I am using belong in the teacher's basket. The demonstrative pronoun that BEST fits in the blank. (that, those, this, these)
What is these?
300
A figure of speech that talks about one thing as though it were something else. EX: "The dance lit a fire in Jose's soul."
What is a metaphor?
300
Like most biographies, how the author organizes the events of Jose's life in the the passage.
What is in the time order they happen?
400
This is a common verb that has these shades of meaning:
propel, push, flow, pull, tug, budge, carry.
What is move?
400
The first appearance or performance of an artist.
What is debut?
400
The antecedent in the sentence: I got new boots from my grandmother, and they are now my favorites!
What is boots?
400
When the text uses the simile to describe Jose's dance steps "smooth as silk," it means this.
What is he was smooth and graceful?
400
When do we first learn that Jose was interested in different kinds of dancing like cancan, flamenco, and ballet?
What is when he was a boy and his father took him to the theater where he worked as a musician?
500
I pedaled with my feet to propel the bicycle up the hill. A common, less descriptive verb to replace "propel"
What is move?
500
When the class agreed that the teacher allow students to use the game closet, as long as they clean up neatly, is the same as giving you this.
What is permission?
500
This is the BEST way to combine these two sentences:
I studied very hard for the test.
I was not surprised I passed the test.
What is I studied hard for the test, so I was not surprised I passed it?
500
This is a figure of speech that compares two diffierent things by using "like" or "as:" Jose swooped like a bird.
What is a simile?
500
To tell and inform readers about the life of a famous dancer is this.
What is the author's main purpose in writing this biography?