Wonderful Writing
Sentence is to paragraph, as line is to _________.
What is stanza?
The number of centimeters in a meter.
What is 100?
The first ten amendments are known as this.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This is the life lesson an author wants readers to learn.
What is theme?
Singing this song is useful when washing our hands.
What is Happy Birthday?
Another word for a claim in opinion writing.
What is a thesis statement?
This type of measurement focuses on the space occupied or the amount of an object's surface coverage.
What is area?
During one of our experiments, electrical energy flowed through wires into a motor. To make the propellor spin, this had to happen to the electrical energy.
What is a transform (into motion energy)?
These two text features can help readers of non-fiction locate specific information.
What is a table of contents and index?
Miss Michael's identical twin sister teaches here.
What is Bridge?
These three "ingredients" make for a strong essay introduction.
What is a hook, thesis statement/claim, and a preview of reasons?
When working on patterns, this visual model can be extremely helpful!
What is a T-chart?
War, dictatorship, famine, natural disasters, employment, education, and a better life are all examples of these.
What are push factors?
Readers make these when they merge their background knowledge (a.k.a. schema) with what a character does, thinks, or says to think more deeply about the text.
What are inferences?
Miss Michael's favorite decade.
What is the 80s?
Every scene in narrative writing should include these three "ingredients."
What is dialogue, small actions, and setting?
This two mathematical concepts both represent equal parts of wholes.
What are fractions and decimals?
During our Energy unit, the capacitor was used to do this with energy.
What is store?
This is an advanced vocabulary word for the end of a story.
What is resolution?
The name of Miss Michael's cat.
Who is Veela?
Alliteration, personification, similes, metaphors, and onomatopoeia are all examples of . . .
What is figurative language?
Three ways you can interpret a remainder.
What is change to a fraction/decimal, ignore, or round up!
The five regions of the US.
What is the Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, West, and Southwest?
Descriptive, chronological/sequence, cause and effect, problem and solution, and compare and contrast are examples of . . .
What are text structures?
The metaphor for our class community?
What is a jigsaw puzzle?