Vocab 1
Literary
Techniques
Grammar
Strategies
Vocab 2
100
This covering helps something blend in with his surroundings.
What is camouflage?
100
The following sentence contains an example of a _____. Roger and Charlie ran like the wind to get home in time for dinner.
What is a simile?
100
A regular verb can be made into a past tense verb by adding this to the ending.
What is -ed?
100
When you use this type of strategy, you use information from the text to figure out the meaning of a new word.
What is a fix-up strategy?
100
If something is ___________ you can see through it.
What is transparent?
200
This is the distance from top to bottom or front to back.
What is depth?
200
What word could best complete the following sentence? After he ________ his breakfast, the boy raced outside to catch the bus for school.
ate, devoured, inhaled (any past tense synonym for eat)
200
Locate the regular verb(s) in the following sentence. The girls played outside, ate lunch, and jogged to the park on Saturday
played; jogged
200
Which words from the passage help you imagine the places described in the passage below? The rocky, snow-capped mountains towered over the land. Trees dotted the mountainsides as the sun rose high into the sky over the peaks.
rocky, snow-capped, towered, trees, dotted, sun, peaks
200
This includes all of the surroundings of a living thing.
What is an environment?
300
This is a specific place in which a plant or animal lives.
What is a niche?
300
The following sentence contains and example of _______. The old man looked down at the boy and said, "Dat little dog over dare could never beat dis here dog in a race!"
What is dialect?
300
This type of verb changes the spelling of the word in order to make it past tense. You cannot just add -ed to these verbs.
What is an irregular verb?
300
This strategy involves using your senses and feelings
What is creating mental images?
300
This means to rely on someone or something for what you need.
What is dependent?
400
This word is a synonym for under.
What is beneath?
400
The following passage is organized this way. The plates float on hot liquid rock called magma. Since the continents and oceans are on top of the plates the shape of the land and water changes as the plates move.
What is cause and effect?
400
Locate the irregular verb(s) in the following sentence. The dog shook the water from his fur after he ran outside in the rain.
shook; ran
400
This strategy involves bringing pieces of information together to form a new idea.
What is synthesis or synthesizing?
400
This means to search for something useful
What is scavenge?
500
This means you are careful not to waste it.
What is conserve?
500
Which of the following words are NOT adjectives? calendar, enormous, slowly, cautiously, smelly, silent, automobile, radio, explain, raise, follow
calendar, radio, automobile= these are nouns slowly, cautiously= these are adverbs explain, raise, follow= these are verbs
500
Find the adjectives in the following sentence and tell what question each adjective answers (what kind? which one? how many?). That girl moved quietly toward the two brown bookcases.
That= which one? two= how many? brown= what kind?
500
Using this strategy, you stop throughout your reading and make sure you are comprehending what you have just read.
What is monitoring your understanding?
500
This means in danger of disappearing from exsistence.
What is endangered?
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