Spelling
Choose the correctly spelled word: glory or glorry.
What is glory?
This vocabulary word means strange or difficult to explain.
What is mysterious?
These two story elements tell WHO is in a story and WHERE and WHEN it happens.
What are characters and setting?
In "The bird is singing," name the helping verb and the -ing verb.
What are is (helping verb) and singing (-ing verb)?
Correct both misspelled words: "I was awair of the stairwey."
What are aware and stairway?
"The dog's fur was matted after playing outside." This is what matted means.
What is tangled together?
This stage of plot introduces the characters, setting, and beginning situation.
What is exposition?
"The scholars are reading right now." This sentence uses this progressive tense.
What is present progressive? Are + reading shows action happening now.
Correct both misspelled words: "The sponge can absorbe water baraly spilled on the desk."
What are absorb and barely?
These thin, curling plant stems can wrap around a fence.
What are tendrils?
A scholar loses the class mascot. Clues lead to a locked closet, but the key is missing. Name the conflict and the plot stage where these complications build.
What are the missing mascot (conflict) and rising action (plot stage)?
Complete with the past progressive form of play: "Yesterday at recess, we ___ basketball."
What is were playing?
Spell the weekly word for a difficult experience, then the word for a large, flat-bottomed boat.
What are ordeal (o-r-d-e-a-l) and barge (b-a-r-g-e)?
"She checked the fastenings on her coat." Fastenings do this job.
What is close or secure something? Examples include buttons, zippers, and clasps.
At the most tense moment, Nia unlocks the closet and discovers the missing mascot. This turning point is this stage of plot.
What is the climax?
Change "She is watering the garden" to future progressive tense.
What is "She will be watering the garden"?
Correct all three spelling errors: "The cartune showed a hero who would discarde the broken barier."
What are cartoon, discard, and barrier?
"New leaves and flowers showed the garden's awakening." Explain awakening in this sentence.
What is becoming active or coming to life again? The new growth shows the garden becoming active.
After finding the mascot, Nia returns it to class. Everyone relaxes, and the class creates a safe place to keep it. Name the two plot stages shown, in order, and explain.
What are falling action and resolution? Returning the mascot shows the tension decreasing; creating a safe place shows how the problem is settled.
Correct both errors: "Yesterday, they is working. Right now, she were reading." Explain your helping verbs.
What is "Yesterday, they were working. Right now, she is reading"? Were matches they and the past; is matches she and the present.