Vocab
The opposite of “big.”
What is small?
The “sh” in ship makes this sound.
What is /sh/?
When you tell what a story is mostly about, you are finding the…
What is the main idea?
A naming word like “cat,” “school,” or “teacher.”
What is a noun?
The girl who wore a red hood and visited her grandmother.
Who is Little Red Riding Hood?
This word means “happy.”
What is joyful?
The word cake has this kind of ending vowel pattern.
What is magic e (silent e)?
The place where a story happens.
What is the setting?
This word tells what someone is doing, like “run” or “jump.”
What is a verb?
The animal that blew down the pigs' houses.
What is the Big Bad Wolf?
A word that means “to look quickly.”
What is glance?
The two letters that make the long “oo” sound in moon.
What are “oo”?
When you use what you already know plus clues from the story to guess what might happen next, you are making a…
What is a prediction?
The capital letter at the beginning and the punctuation at the end are called…
What are sentence rules? (or conventions)
The reason Cinderella had to leave the ball at midnight.
What is the spell would break?
A word that means “very tired.”
What is exhausted?
The sound made by “th” in thumb.
What is /th/ (soft th)?
The message or lesson of a story is called the…
What is the theme/moral?
This kind of word describes a noun, like “blue,” “tall,” or “funny.”
What is an adjective?
The girl who had to spin straw into gold with the help of a magical little man.
Who is Rumpelstiltskin?
A word that means “to speak quietly.”
What is whisper?
The vowel team in team makes this long vowel sound.
What is long e?
When you tell the most important parts of a text in a shorter way, you are making a…
What is a summary?
Fix this sentence: the dog ran fast down the street.
What is: “The dog ran fast down the street.”?
In Jack and the Beanstalk, what does Jack trade for the magic beans?
What is a cow?