Parts of speech
It is a person, place, or thing.
What is a noun?
It is the answer to an addition problem.
What is a sum?
These are three punctuation marks that can go at the end of a sentence.
What are periods, question marks, and exclamation points?
These words appear at the beginning of a page or section in nonfiction texts. They're usually bigger, and they tell the topic of the section.
What is a heading?
This is the last thing that Doña Deborah usually says to you when you leave Spanish class.
What is "ciao?"
It is something you can do.
What is a verb?
It is the answer to a subtraction problem.
What is a difference?
This punctuation mark in the middle of the sentence means the reader should pause a little bit.
What is a comma?
These words appear under a picture to tell the reader what the picture is about.
What is a caption?
This was Martin Luther King Jr.'s nickname when he was a kid.
What was ML?
It is a small noun that takes the place of another noun (like he, you, it, or they).
What is a pronoun?
It is the coin that is worth five cents.
What is a nickel?
This is a good time to use quotation marks.
What is, when you're writing the exact words somebody said?
This is where and when a story takes place.
What is the setting?
This is the name of the kid at Wayside School who has to go home on the kindergarten bus every single day (Ms. Amanda's favorite character).
Who is Todd?
It is a word that describes a noun.
What is an adjective?
What is an addend?
This is the name of the small mark in contractions, like "don't" or "wouldn't," and in times when somebody owns something, like, "Ms. Amanda's game."
This is a nonfiction genre of book that can tell you all about a real person's life.
What is a biography?
This is the name of our very first class pet.
It is a specific person, place, or thing's name, and it should always be capitalized.
What is a proper noun?
It is the value of a 4 in the tens place.
These advanced punctuation marks can go around part of a sentence that talks about a slightly different topic (or an afterthought).
What are parentheses?
This is another word for the lesson at the end of a story.
What is a moral?
This is the name of the person who fixes things at Emerson School.
Who is Mr. Pete or Mr. McClure?