Spelling
Choose the word spelled correctly: a. sute b. suit c. soote d. sewt
What is b. suit?
True or False. The solution in a story is the way to solve a problem.
What is true?
The plural form of berry.
What is berries?
True or False: A fact is something that is known or can be proven true.
What is true?
Words that are important to a topic, usually shown in bold letters.
What are key words?
Choose the word that is spelled incorrectly: a. world b.hert c. river d. surprise
What is hert?
Bonus 100pts - What is the correct spelling?
The statement that tells a fact:
a. Wolves communicate with each other by howling, growling and other vocal sounds.
b. Wolves are the best forest animal.
What is a. Wolves communicate with each other by howling, growling and other vocal sounds.?
What is halves?
Bonus 100 pts - What do we call nouns that do not become plural by adding -s or -es?
A situation that causes trouble and must be dealt with.
What is a problem?
Description of photos or illustrations.
What is a caption?
The word with the same vowel sound as moon:
a. hot
b. mug
c. blue
What is c. blue?
Identify the problem:
Hundreds of students helped to pick up trash near the harbor Saturday. Recent storms had blown trash onto the shore. The trash covered half a mile of beach. Students came by bus from nearby towns. They filled 250 bags with plastic and paper. Then grownups raked the sand. By evening, no plastic could be seen.
What is Storms blew trash onto the beach.?
Bonus 100 pts: What is the solution?
True or False: Regular verbs end in -s, -es, -d, -ed, or -ing.
What is true?
Example: pick
picks, picked, picking
A page of key words and their definitions at the end of a nonfiction text.
What is a glossary?
Where to go to find the definition of a bold print word in a nonfiction text.
What is the glossary?
What is d. worm?
Having to do with the order in which things happen.
What is chronological order?
An example of an abstract noun (names an idea, feeling or emotion).
a. friendship b. street c. ball d. leaves
What is a. friendship?
Other examples of abstract nouns: childhood, birthday, bravery, anger, kindness, laughter
Words: a. emerge b. species c. consume
What is a. emerge?
The purpose of illustrations in nonfiction text.
What is to show more information about a topic or idea?
1. Divide the following word into two syllables.
2. Identify the letters that spell the vowel sound.
purple
What is pur/ple? Vowel sound made by ur.
When to pause when reading through a poem.
What is when there is punctuation at the end of the line like a period, question mark or comma?
For example:
Little grains of sand,
Make the mighty ocean
And the pleasant land.
Past tense of the verb: buy
What is bought?
Bonus 100pts - What do we call a verbs that do not follow any rules for changing verb tenses?
Proof from a text to support a statement or idea.
What is evidence?
Two text features that would help show where sea turtles nest in a nonfiction text.
What is: map and caption?