What is the genre where the author tells a story about his or her own life.
What is Autobiography
100
What compares two very different things WITHOUT using the words LIKE and AS?
What is Metaphor
100
What is a statement that can be proven?
What is Fact
100
What are the events or actions in a story?
What is Plot
100
The students were anticipating the party.
What is a synonym for the word anticipating.
What is Anxious, Nervous, Excited
200
What is the genre where characters and events are made up by the author?
What is Fiction
200
What is it called when a writer makes something that is not human seem like a person in some way? Ex: "The tree was dancing in the wind."
What is Personification
200
"William Joyce was brave to write and illustrate a book," is an example of what?
What is Opinion
200
What is the topic or subject of a story?
What is Theme
200
What does the word postgame mean?
What is after the game
300
What are examples of fiction that: are short compositions, use language to create pictures, and sounds, and usually have rhyming words as the end words?
Poems
300
What is this an example of: The teacher took two tigers to town today.
What is Alliteration
300
Which of these statements is a fact:
"I know that the budget is low for books" or "It has a poor selection of mystery books"
What is "I know that the budget is low for books"
300
What is the setting for "Satchmo's Blues"?
What is New Orleans, Louisiana (Perdido Street)
300
"Her eyes were cerulean, the kind of blue that you see in a summer sky. What does the words cerulean mean?
What is Sky-Blue
400
Give two stories we read that are historical fiction.
What is:
-Sees Behind Trees
-Elena
-Island of the Blue Dolphins
400
What type of figurative language is: "Tom ate the cake like he was a human vacuum."
What is Simile
400
Give a word that could be a clue that the author is expressing an opinion.
What is: nobody, all, think, best, feel, worst, believe, always, seem, never, etc.
400
Name the main characters from "The Case of the Flying-Saucer People."
What is Einstein (Adam), Mrs.Anderson(mom), and Mr.Janus
400
What does the prefix -ness mean and give examples of words that end in -ness.
What is the state or quality of and goodness, kindness, happiness, etc.
500
Create a short story that is a folk tale.
What is: A folk tale is fiction, teaches a lesson, and is a traditional type of story.
500
Give examples of ontamontapia
What is:
Crack
Whap
Whiff
Click
Drip
Etc.
500
Give an example of a fact and then change that same sentence to make it an opinion.
What is: Fact- Miss Long teaches fifth grade. Opinion- Miss Long always gives homework.
500
Summarize "The World of William Joyce Scrapbook."
What is: William Joyce has loved drawing ever since he was a child. His first drawings were pretty simple but as he got older they became better. He did not enjoy drawing realistically and stuck with animations. Joyce describes the steps for creating a book and the first book he wrote and illustrated. William Joyce wrote this story to answer questions that students might ask about creating a story (illustrating and writing).
500
Give five examples of words that have a prefix and five words that have a suffix.
What is disappear, mistreat, prearrange, subfreezing, nonsense and teacher, friendship, celebration,widen, comfortable