Parts of Speech
Generative Vocabulary
Story & Academic Vocabulary
Mixed Bag
Literary Elements
100

Person, place, thing, idea, animal

What is a noun?

100

A word part added before a root word that changes the meaning of the word. 

What is a prefix. 

100

A word that means the same. 

What is a synonym.

100

A story that is passed down from 1 generation to the next and often reflects the cultural elements of that culture, includes a lesson or moral. 

A folktale. 

100

What are literary elements?

The parts of a story. 

200

An action or state of being

What is a verb

200

A word part added to the end of a word that changes the word's part of speech. For example, rain (noun)  + y = rainy. 

What is a suffix. 

200
A word that means the opposite. 

What is an antonym. 

200

The genre of Flora and Ulysses was this because it included plot events that could never happen in real life, such as a talking squirrel. 

What is fantasy. 
200

Who is involved in the story. 

What are characters. 

300
A part of a sentence that is not a complete thought. 

What is a fragment

300

What is the meaning of the root word "tract" as in subtract, attract, tractor, contraction

drag or pull 

300

Provide a synonym for author's message. 

Theme. 

300

This narration is when a character is in the story and uses pronouns such as I, me, my. Sometimes writer's will use this narration to make the reader feel more connected to the character. 

What is first person point of view. 
300
The time period (long ago, present day, in the future, day time, night time) and location of the story. 
What is the setting. 
400
Describes a noun or pronoun. 
What is an adjective.
400

The prefixes in, mis, un, im, and dis, all mean what?

What is  not

400

Name all three full stop punctuation marks. 

period, exclamation mark, question mark

400
The narrator is who is telling the story. When an author includes the thoughts and feelings of all of the characters in the story, they are using this narration. 

Third person point of view

400
The problem or conflict. 

What is the plot. 

500

A word or phrase that shows emotion or feeling and can be found at the before, in the middle, or at the end of a sentence. 

What is an interjection. 

500

What does generative vocabulary mean?

Answer will vary but should be something along the lines - to generate or create meaning out of new words based on word parts. 

500
Punctuation that shows what a character is saying
Quotation marks
500
The reason why an author writes. 

Author's purpose. 

500
Define theme. 
Answers will vary but should be similar to the message that the author wants the reader to take away from reading the story and apply to his or her own life. 
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