Vocabulary
The Puddle Puzzle
If You Find a Rock
Looking at Art
Reading Strategy
100

The part of something that faces the ground

UNDERSIDE

100

What was the setting?

a neighborhood on a sunny spring afternoon

100

Are the images in the book Illustrations or Photographs?

Photographs

100

What does an Art Critic do?

Look at art and decide if they like it or not, compare it to other artists.

100
What is the word we use to group or classify the kind of text we read?

Genre

200
To pick something up with cupped hands

SCOOP

200

Who are the characters?

Taylor, Brandon, Carlos, Adriana

200

What is the Central Idea of the book?

-Every rock is good for something/has a purpose

-Every rock represents something

200

What was the man doing in the painting?

Blowing bubbles.

200

What reading strategy do you use when you make a movie of the story in your head?

Creating mental images

300

Say what something is. Give it a label.

IDENTIFY

300

What is the Genre of the story The Puddle Puzzle?

Drama

300

What kind of rock is a soft white rock— a rock that feels dusty in your fingers. 

a Chalk Rock

300

Where was the artist from?

France

300

What are 2 of the 6 question words we use when we Ask and Answer questions about a piece of writing?

WHO? WHAT? WHERE? WHEN? WHY? HOW?

400

When something passes slowly through a small opening.

SEEPS

400

What is it called when a character speaks in a piece of writing?

Dialog 

400

What kind of rock do you have if you find a rock with a print of something else— a leaf or a shell. 

a Fossil Rock

400

What is the Genre of this piece of text?

Fine Art
400

What is it called when the read tries to figure out the main message of a story.

 The message every page in the book connects to.

Central Idea

500

A place that helps others get something done.

AGENCY

500

What is it called when actions are written like this (pulling out her notebook and writing

Stage Directions
500
What is the name for the kind of words we use to describe things?

Adjectives

500

What is the medium of the art?

Painting, Oil on Canvas
500

What is it called when you make a connection between the book (or text) you are reading and something from your own life?

TEXT to SELF

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