General Tips
Figurative Language
Miscellaneous 1
Text Structure
Miscellaneous 2
100
This will be on the right side of a problem/solution graphic organizer.
What is the solution?
100
The type of language that is not meant to be taken literally.
What is using figurative language?
100
The meaning of diverse in these sentences: The many and diverse choices of ribbon color were great in the fabric store. You could choose from orange, red, yellow, blue, or green, just to name a few colors!
What is various or different?
100
These are 3 ways that lemons and oranges compare.
What are they: are fruits, have vitamin C, are round, are brightly colored, smell great, etc.
100
You’ll run into trouble if you talk to a stranger. (Fact or Opinion)
What is Opinion?
200
This is what you need to do when a question asks about what happened before an event in a passage.
What is go back and read what happened before the event?
200
Peter picked a peck of pickled peppers is an example of this.
What is alliteration?
200
This is what you could conclude from the fact that John Glenn was one of the first American astronauts.
What is John Glenn is famous?
200
This is the type of text structure you would use when writing a biography of George Washington. (Sequential, Chronological, Problem-Solution, Cause and Effect)
What is Chronological?
200
The weather report on Channel 8 today called for cloudy skies. (fact or opinion)
What is fact?
300
Mrs. Poindexter number one tip for success!
What is read the passage and then go back in the passage and find the answer.
300
"I'm so hungry I could eat a horse," and "My backpack weighs a ton" are examples of this.
What is hyperbole?
300
This is an inference you could make with the information that Astronauts had to be physically fit and John Glenn is an astronaut.
What is John Glenn was in good shape?
300
This is the type of text structure you would use when saying what will happen if you mix oil and vinegar. (Sequential, Chronological, Problem-Solution, Cause and Effect)
What is cause and effect?
300
The author's purpose in an article titled: "Scenic Road Trip Along the Blue Ridge Mountains" (Inform, Persuade, Entertain, Describe)
What is Describe?
400
This is the name of the lesson a story teaches.
What is the theme or the moral?
400
"This is like the best game ever" is not an example of this, but "He eats like a horse" and "He is as big as a house" are.
What is simile?
400
The answer to this analogy- Chicken: eggs:: dairy cows: ______________
What is milk?
400
This is the type of text structure you would use when describing how to make a cake. (Sequential, Chronological, Problem-Solution, Cause and Effect)
What is sequential?
400
The author's purpose in an article titled: "INFANT CARSEATS MAY BE FAULTY"
What is Inform?
500
Do this when you are unsure of the meaning of the word.
What is use context clues?
500
This is much like a simile except it does not use "like" or "as."
What is a metaphor?
500
The answer to this analogy- Up: Down :: left: _________
What is right?
500
This is the type of text structure you would use if telling what to do about a faulty carpet cleaner you rented. (Sequential, Chronological, Problem-Solution, Cause and Effect)
What is Problem-Solution?
500
The author's purpose in an article titled "SMALL STEPS CAN TURN POLLUTION AROUND"
What is Persuade?
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