Story Characters
Reading Comprehension Strategies
Grammar Skills
Remember the Story
Miscellaneous ELA/WRITING Topics
100
Loyal and faithful dogs
Who are Bimbo and Lob?
100
Figure me out by reading the first line in a story or my title...
What is main idea?
100
A word that describes a person, place or thing
What is an adjective?
100
Celebrating a young lady growing into adulthood
What is My Cousin's Quinceanera?
100
The reasons why an author writes.
What is author's purpose?
200
I killed the evil creature with "jaws that bite and claws that catch!"
Who is the Prince?
200
The lesson learned in a story
What is the theme?
200
Who or what the sentence is about.
What is the subject?
200
"Did gyre and gimble in the wabe" is a line from this story.
What is Jabberwocky?
200
Typically what you would call the first sentence in an essay.
What is the topic sentence?
300
This character said, "O oysters, come and walk with us!"
Who is the Walrus?
300
Placing the events in the story in order to better understand the story.
What is sequencing?
300
I am usually placed at the end of an imperative or declarative sentence.
What is a period?
300
"If seven maids with seven mops swept it for half a year..."
What is The Walrus and the Carpenter?
300
The series of events in a story or drama.
What is plot?
400
"Look to your lives!"
Who is the stranger?
400
A literary device that teases readers about how the plot will turn.
What is foreshadowing?
400
In the sentence, "My favorite snack is Hot Cheetos from the Papi store"... if I underlined "hot cheetos from the Papi store, this is the part of the sentence I would underline.
What is the complete predicate?
400
Dr. Travers, Granny Pearce, Don...
What is Lob's Girl?
400
Naming a thing or an action by imitating the sound associated with it. (Examples are buzz, hiss or wham)
What is onomatopoeia?
500
Her cousin was going to have a huge celebration for her 15th birthday party.
Who is Laura?
500
And the plot thickens...
What is the Rising Action? And the plot thickens...
500
I am missing a subject, a predicate or both.
What is a sentence fragment?
500
Naples, Rufus and Caesar...
What is The Dog of Pompeii?
500
A story or drama that uses real and made-up settings, events and characters from the past.
What is historical fiction?
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