Main Idea/Details
Context Clues
Figurative Language
Grammar
Vocabulary
100
What the big idea is of a story.
What is main idea?
100
Use Context Clues to figure out what confiscated means: Joanne's mother came up to the school to get the cell phone the teacher had confiscated.
To take.
100
What kind of figurative language is the following phrase: The baby was like an octopus, grabbing at all the cans on the grocery store shelves.
Simile
100
What kind of sentence: Why is the dog barking?
imperative
100
To make a change on a piece of writing.
Amendment
200
Juan loves to play games. His favorite game is chess because it requires a great deal of thought. Juan also likes to play less demanding board games that are based mostly on luck. He prefers Monopoly because it requires luck and skill. If he’s alone, Juan likes to play action video games as long as they aren’t too violent. What is the main idea?
Juan enjoys playing games.
200
Use context clues to figure out what obediently means: Unlike her older brother Jerome, who stayed out all hours of the night, Kate obediently followed the curfew her parents set.
To Follow or Obey
200
What figurative language is being used in the following sentence: The giant's steps were thunder as he ran toward Jack.
Metaphor
200
What kind of sentence is the following: Put him on a leash.
Imperative
200
To have a strong interest.
Passion
300
Write a supporting detail to go along with this main idea: Lightning is very dangerous.
Anything relating to lightning being dangerous.
300
What context clues in this sentences help you figure out what collect means: Please rake the leaves, collect them, and take them to the compost.
rake the leaves, take them
300
Write a simile.
Look at answers... similes use like or as to compare two dissimilar items.
300
Name the subject and predicate in the following sentence: The whole family travels in our new camper.
subject: family/predicate: travels
300
To search
forage
400
Benjamin Franklin invented many things that made life easier in the late 1700’s. He invented the lightning rod that saved many homes from fires. He also invented the Franklin stove. The stove could heat a room better than a fireplace and saved people a lot of fuel. He also invented a special kind of glasses called bifocals. This new kind of glasses helped people to read better. What is the main idea?
Benjamin Franklin was a great inventor.
400
What clues in this sentence help you figure out what teeming means? The boy knew that the lake was teeming, and overflowing with bass, so he brought a big net to help get the fish in the boat.
overflowing, big net
400
Write a metaphor.
Must state that one thing is something else, it is a comparison but it does NOT use like or as.
400
What are the three conjunctions we use to make longer sentence?
and, or, and but
400
What is suffrage?
The right for people to vote for a government leader.
500
What is the main idea?: Someday we will all have robots that will be our personal servants. They will look and behave much like real humans. We will be able to talk to these mechanical helpers and they will be able to respond in kind. Amazingly, the robots of the future will be able to learn from experience. They will be smart, strong, and untiring workers whose only goal will be to make our lives easier.
Someday we will all have robots that will be our personal servants.
500
Using context clues, what does content mean? While others eat eggs, pancakes and bacon for breakfast, Mike was content with a piece of toast and a glass of orange juice.
happy
500
What is an idiom? Say a sentence using an idiom.
A group of words that have a different meaning than the literal meaning.
500
Combine these two sentences to make one long sentence: She looked up at the sky. She looked at the storm clouds.
Should looked up at the sky and at the storm clouds.
500
What is the definition of politics?
A study in the way in which countries are governed.
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