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The short story is told by talking animals, and it teaches a lesson.
What is a fable?
The giant squid is enormous. It is as long as a school bus. It weighs 2 tons. Its eyes are the size of dinner plates.
What is the central idea?
What is, "The giant squid is enormous."
A text that compares two different things is what organizational pattern?
What is Compare and Contrast?
What is the climax in the story, Cinderella?
a) The stepsisters rip the beads off her neck.
b) The prince searches for and finds Cinderella.
c) The evil stepmother makes Cinderella work hard.
d) The prince and Cinderella dance at the ball.
What is, The prince searches for and finally finds Cinderella?
The boy and his dog played in the water and they built a sand castle together.
What change needs to be made in the sentence?
What is, add a comma before the word AND so that you can change this run on sentence into a compound sentence.
The story includes royalty and magic and usually ends with happily ever after.
What is a fairy tale?
It is best to bring your lunch to school. The average school lunch costs $3.00. That's $15.00 every week! Plus, if you bring your own lunch, you can choose what you want to eat. Tell your mom that you want to start making and bringing your own lunch today!
What is the central idea?
What is, "It is best to bring your lunch to school"?
A text that tells the reader the steps for how to do something is called which text structure?
a) Compare and Contrast
b) Sequence
c) Cause and Effect
What is Sequence?
What is the conflict in the story Cinderella?
What is, Cinderella's stepmother and stepsisters are cruel to her and make her do all the work.
So to the ball Cinderella could go the fairy godmother showed up.
How should the sentence be revised to make the ideas clear and effective?
What is, The fairy godmother showed up so that Cinderella could go to the ball.
This text gives information, and the author wants to inform us about something.
What is nonfiction or informational?
Did you know that different species of snakes give birth in different ways? Some lay eggs. When the snakes are ready, they break through the eggs. Some snakes have live babies, and there are no eggs. Some give live birth, but only after the eggs hatch inside the female snake.
What is the main idea?
What is, "Different snakes give birth in different ways"?
Which type of text structure discusses a problem, then tells how the problem can be solved?
What is problem and solution?
How is the conflict resolved in the story, Cinderella?
What is, Cinderella and the prince fall in love and get married.
When my mom saw that all seven of us were jumping on the trampoline, she yelled, "They're are too many of you on the trampoline!"
What change needs to be made in the sentence?
a) Change mom to Mom.
b) Delete the comma after yelled.
c) Change They're to There.
What is, c) Change They're to There.
The text has lines and stanzas, and the author's purpose is either to entertain or to express ideas or thoughts about something.
What is poetry?
What are the two steps to follow when determining the central idea?
What is
1. Identify the topic.
2. Ask yourself, "What is the author saying about the topic?"
A text that is cause and effect tells the reader what?
What is, something that caused something else to happen?
Which is rising action in the story, Cinderella?
a) They live happily ever after.
b) Cinderella's fairy godmother does magic so that Cinderella can go to ball.
c) The prince finds Cinderella and they live happily ever after.
What is, B) Cinderella's fairy godmother does magic so that Cinderella can go to the ball.
When my sister opened the drawer, a frog jump out of the drawer and onto her head!
What change needs to be made in the sentence?
a) Change When to Before.
b) Change jump to jumped.
c) Delete the comma.
What is, B) Change jump to jumped.
When the author provides a claim and facts and reasons to support it. There is usually an intended audience.
What is argumentative?
Great white sharks are one of the most feared predators. They are one of the few species of sharks known to have bitten and killed people. Usually if a great white shark bites a person, they quickly release him when he realizes that it is not his preferred meal. Unfortunately, even an exploratory bite can be dangerous or fatal.
What is the main idea?
What is, "Great white sharks are one of the most feared predators.
A text that describes something is using what organizational pattern?
What is, description?
Cinderella sat and cried after her stepmother told her that she could not go to the ball. She wanted her to stay home and work. Her fairy godmother showed up and said, "Bibidi Bobidi Boo!"
Is the story Cinderella written in first person or third person point of view?
What is third person?
My best friend wrote me a letter, and in the letter my best friend invited to visit her in Florida.
How can we improve this sentence?
What is, Remove the repeated words "my best friend".