When an unfamiliar word is surrounded with hints or clues to help with the meaning.
What are context clue?
100
Samantha, I can’t eat or sleep when you are gone. I need to hear your scratchy voice and see your lovely toothless smile. I miss that special way that you eat soup with your fingers. Please come home soon!
Answer is: Samantha, I miss you.
What is main idea?
100
Describing something by comparing it with something else.
What is figurative language?
100
A blocked shot.
What is packed?
100
This answer can be found within the passage or text.
What is a Level I Question?
200
These are the four types.
What are synonym, definition, inference, and antonym clues.
200
The authors attitude toward a specific work (story)
What is tone?
200
Comparing two unlike things using like or as.
What is a simile?
200
Another word for "D up"
What is play hard defense?
200
This type of note-taking process is an organized way of documenting important information.
What is AVID note?
300
The voters will convene at the city building.
What does convene mean?
What is to gather or meet?
300
How the reader feels about a specific work
What is mood?
300
Her home was a prison is an example of this.
What is a metaphor?
300
A shot attempted from outside the normal range of a player usually with the clock running out.
What is a prayer?
300
These parts make up the AVID document.
What are questions, notes, and summary section?
400
The army had many covert operations that the public didn’t know about until three months later.
What does covert mean?
What is a secret?
400
Facts and ideas that explain the main idea of a paragraph
What are supporting details?
400
The window winked at me is an example of this.
What is personification?
400
A successful offensive play that make the defensive player look bad.
What is schooled?
400
This is the acronym of the word A.V.I.D.
What is Advance Via Individual Determination?
500
Please curtail your time spent on the Internet; other people would like to use it.
What does curtail mean?
What is shorten?
500
Documenting what a character says exactly and placing punctuation around the phrase.
What are quotes?/What is quotting?
500
Would you say it was as funny
As a bouncing blue-backed bunny
Blowing bubbles with a bobby in a boat?
What is alliteration?
500
A player that stays in one spot on the floor for a long period.
What is camped?
500
Specific name of the actual paper used to take notes.