Compound Words
Past Stories
Vocabulary
Prefix/Suffix
Genres
100
The _____house helps people on boats see that there is land nearby.
Light
100
Fill in the blank: "The _______ Rabbit"
Velveteen
100
Type-writers and CD players are so out-of-______.
date
100
Give me an example of a word with the suffix "-ment"
Commitment, amendment, shipment
100
What are the three types of nonfiction text?
Informational, autobiography, biography
200
The Mona Lisa is a ______piece.
Master
200
Fill in the blank: "The Monster in the ______"
Barn
200
What is dexter and sinister?
Dexter - right; sinister - left
200
What does the prefix "re-" mean? ex. redo, restate
Again
200
Name three subgenres of fiction.
fantasy, mystery, romance, tall tale, legend, realistic fiction, historical fiction, etc.
300
What do you see when you flush a toilet?
Whirlpool
300
What is the job of the man that the elves helped?
Shoemaker
300
Ms. Borja gave me the ________ to turn in my make up work.
opportunity
300
What is "micro-" and "macro-?"
micro- is small macro- is large
300
Under what subgenre does a memoir fall under?
autobiography
400
What do you call the metal barrier in roads that prevents cars from going to the wrong lane?
Guardrail
400
In the story "American Bald Eagle," who wanted the turkey to be the US National emblem?
Benjamin Franklin
400
What does baffled mean?
Confused
400
What does the prefix "semi-" mean?
Half
400
What are the two types of cinquains?
Synonym and Antonym
500
What kind of bag is a sling bag?
Drawstring
500
Who was the main character in "Twenty Valentines?"
Millicent
500
What does snubbed mean?
ignore
500
What suffix means "to the direction of?"
-ward
500
What kind of subgenre has the rhyme scheme "abab cdcd efef gg?" What kind of subgenre has the rhyme scheme "abab" or "abba?"
Sonnet, ballad
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