Name that book- REFERENCES
What reference book would you use to find a synonym for a particular word?
What is a thesaurus?
What is a pronoun? Please be ready to give an example.
What is "a pronoun replaces a noun."
What is the theme?
What is the "theme is the message or lesson in the story."
What is the main idea of the following passage: Chris really likes playing baseball. He enjoys being on a team with his friends and getting to be competitive. Last week, he pitched a "no hitter" and he was so excited to win his first game. He doesn't like playing on hot days, but he is so grateful to play a sport that he loves.
What is "Chris loves playing baseball."
What words need to be corrected in the following sentence?
Example: mrs. shelton went to crest last night.
What is "Mrs. Shelton" and "Crest"
I want to look up directions and need to find a map. What would I use?
What is an atlas?
What do you call the part of speech that connects two simple sentences or phrases using a comma?
What is a conjunction?
Find the theme of the passage below:
One day last fall, a family of ants was bustling about collecting grain for the winter. A starving grasshopper with a fiddle under his arm begged for something to eat. "What?" cried the ants. "Didn't you store anything away for the winter?" said the ants. "What were you doing all last summer?" "I didn't have time to store any food," said the grasshopper. "I was too busy making music." The ants shrugged their shoulders in disgust. "Making music were you?" They turned their back on the grasshopper and went on their way.
A. Making music is fun!
B. Ants are smarter than grasshoppers
C. There is a time for work and a time for play
D. Having fun is more important than working
What is "there is a time for work and a time for play."
What is the main idea of the following passage:
Many different shapes are quadrilaterals. A quadrilateral is a shape that has four sides. Some examples of quadrilaterals are squares, rectangles, rhombus and trapezoids. Pentagons, hexagons, and octagons are not considered quadrilaterals because they do not have four sides.
What is "many different shapes are quadrilaterals."
Does the sentence below need to be corrected?
Example: Cooper attends South Lake Elementary in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
What is no?
Joe is doing a research project on England. What reference book should he use to help with his project?
What is an encyclopedia?
This part of speech is a person, place or thing. Be ready to give an example of a common and proper one.
What is a noun?
Sarah and Sally were sisters, but they had nothing in common. One liked sports and the other liked to read and stay inside. They didn't get along because they didn't think they had anything in common. One day, both were upset by a grade they received. Sarah failed math and Sally failed reading. They decided to use their differences to help one another. On the next test, both were successful.
What is the theme of this passage?
What is "your differences are what make us unique. We can help each other by being good at different things."
Sarah woke up and jumped out of bed. She couldn't wait to get dressed, brush her hair and teeth and get dressed for the school musical. She had been looking forward to it all year! Today was finally the day! She had worked so hard and couldn't wait to show off her talent to the school.
How does Sarah feel about the school musical?
What is "Sarah is excited about the school musical."
What words need to be capitalized in the following sentence--
Example: Joey jones plays soccer for the ymca in Moore.
What is "Jones" and "YMCA"
I need to find how to pronounce (say) an unknown word. Where would I look?
What is a dictionary?
What is the verb in the following sentence?
Example: Sarah went to the store and bought groceries last night.
What is "went" and "bought."
What is the theme of the following passage?
Kamry walked into Open House before school started and saw her teacher standing at the door. She saw a tall, old lady with gray hair. She did not smile the way her second grade teacher smiled. She looked mean. She was very nervous for the first day of school. Her mom asked her how her first day went. Kamry replied, "it was great! Mrs. Smith is the nicest teacher! She taught us how to learn using games!"
What is "don't judge a book by its cover" or "don't judge someone based on what they look like."
What is the main idea of the following passage:
Women's gymnastics is a very popular sport to watch during the Olympics. The girls compete on four different events--uneven bars, balance beam, vault, and floor. While the women's floor routine is to music, the uneven bars, balance beam and vault are not to music. Every year, people pack in arenas to see the girls compete!
What is "the main idea of the passage is women's gymnastics are a popular sport."
Does the following sentence need any corrections?
Example: Sally went to the Beach in Florida last july.
What is "beach" and "July"
Sarah is working in her Wonders book. She needs to know the definition of a word from the story in the book. Where would she need to look?
What is a glossary?
What is the part of speech that describes an adjective or verb? It usually ends in -ly.
What is an adverb?
What is the theme of this passage?
Susie was always telling people what to do. She liked to talk over people and she never thought she was wrong. When playing a game with others at recess, she would get mad when she was tagged and she was always throwing fits when she didn't get her way. She couldn't understand why people would not want to play and be her friend. One day, she decided to be nicer and realized by being nice and making different choices, others were nicer to her.
Sarah is a third grader at South Lake Elementary. Every day, Sarah tries to make good choices. One day, she meets a friend named Donna. Donna doesn't make good choices. She convinces Sarah to lie to her teacher and assures her she won't get into trouble. The teacher catches Sarah and she gets sent to the office. Donna laughs at Sarah getting into trouble. What do you think Sarah will do next time?
What is "Sarah will not listen to Donna and will make the choices she knows are right."
Rewrite this sentence using the correct capitalization and punctuation.
Example: yesterday afternoon, sarah went to sprouts to buy strawberries and apples
Yesterday afternoon, Sarah went to Sprouts to buy strawberries and apples.