The Egypt Game
The Egypt Game continued
Reading Strategies
Reading Strategies continued
Odds and Ends
100
April, Elizabeth,Melanie,Marshall and the Professor
Who are the main characters in The Egypt Game?
100
Security
What is the name of Marshall's octopus?
100
Prediction
What is a thought about what will happen next?
100
How things are alike and how they are different.
What is compare and contrast?
100
Emily Dickinson
Who is the author of "Nobody?"
200
Northern California, the backyard of the A-Z shop, and behind the Casa Rosada
What is the setting of The Egypt Game?
200
Halloween
What is when the kids snuck back into Egypt?
200
The order in which events happen.
What is sequence?
200
The reason something happens and what occurs because of it.
What is cause and effect?
200
Elaborate
What is to add anecdotes, and supporting details?
300
The Casa Rosada
What is where Melanie, Elizabeth, and Melanie live? or the name of their apartment building?
300
Pete-hotep
What is the name of Elizabeth's parakeet that died.
300
Main idea
What is the most important idea?
300
Author's purpose or intent
What is why an author writes a piece?
300
ante meridian, post meridian, and post script
What is A.M. P.M. and P.S.
400
The Professor
What is who was watching the game through his window or who runs the A-Z shop?
400
Found being a baby insulting and didn't like the term baby sitting.
Who is Marshall?
400
Interpreting figurative language
What is figuring out what simile, metaphors, idioms, and hyperbole mean?
400
Inform, explain, persuade, entertain, describe
What is author's purpose or intent?
400
John Wilson
Who wrote Flames of the Tiger?
500
Mr. Schmitt's cousin
Who is the murderer?
500
Dorthea
Who is April's mother?
500
Context clues
What is figuring out the meaning of a word by reading the words and sentences around it?
500
Summary/summarize
What is to place the most important ideas of a piece in your own words?
500
Laura Hillenbrand
Who wrote Sea Biscuit?
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