Wordy, Wordy
What's That Strategy?
Spell-O-Rama
Can You Say Genre?
Stories We Remember
100
spectacular or suspenseful
What is dramatic
100
Thinking about what you already know to help you understand a story.
What is Activating/Using Prior Knowledge?
100
Spell the following word: Move to a new place
MIGRATE
100
A made-up story containing things that would never happen in real life.
What is a fantasy?
100
A locust looks different from a grasshopper because a grasshopper is green, and a locust turns —
What is dark yellow or red?
200
continuing to live
What is survival?
200
Re-telling a story to include the most important parts.
What is summarizing?
200
Spell the following word: to make afraid or scary
SPELL FRIGHTENING
200
A story that has a moral or a lesson at the end.
What is a fable?
200
How does the landscape look different after the locusts have flown through?
What is "all the plants have been eaten?"
300
when animals move to a different place at a particular time of the year?
What is MIGRATION?
300
Stopping and thinking about the story to make sure you are understanding.
What is Monitor or check for understanding?
300
Spell the following word: when the weather is cold
SPELL CHILLY
300
A made-up, realistic story that takes place some time in history.
What is Historical Fiction?
300
How is the migration of the gray whale different from the migration of other mammals?
What is they go farther than other mammals?
400
a long stretch of land seen from one place
What is LANDSCAPE?
400
Knowing that every story has a predictable mountain to follow, with characters, setting, a beginning, a middle and an end.
What is Story Structure?
400
Spell the following word: Sophie put on a sweater because she felt ________.
SPELL CHILLY
400
Books that are true, about real places, people and events.
What is non-fiction?
400
How are gray whales and locusts different?
What is Gray whales live in the sea, but locusts live in the desert?
500
events that happen unexpectedly and may cause harm?
What is ACCIDENTS?
500
Creating a clear picture in your mind, of something you read.
What is visualization?
500
Spell the following word: The milk is a liquid, and the cookies are a ________.
SPELL SOLID.
500
A made-up story in the author's head.
What is fiction?
500
Which gray whales are the first to return to the Arctic in March?
What is Adult males?
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