Reading Skills
Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water. Jack fell down and broke his crown and Jill came tumbling after.
What caused Jack's crown to break?
What is "Jack fell down"?
The genre that is nonfiction and gives facts.
What is informational text?
A word part added to the end of a base word to change its meaning.
What is a suffix?
Choose the sentence with the correct punctuation.
A) The park is at 100 Central Avenue Springfield, Maine.
B) His house is at 12 Long Street, Orlando, Florida.
What is B?
The word that is spelled incorrectly.
a) frozin
b) siren
c) tiny
d) even
What is a) frozin?
Bonus: 100 Points: How do you spell the word frozin corectly?
True or False: Sequencing is rereading the passage to understand it better.
What is false?
Bonus: 100 points- What is sequencing?
The type of passages that inform readers about the natural world.
What are science texts?
A punctuation mark used to show a natural pause in reading and writing.
What is a comma?
Choose the sentence that is written correctly:
A) We went to Columbus Ohio, to see the elephants at the zoo.
B) Jimmy and his family went to Cincinnati, Ohio, to go to the Newport Aquarium.
What is B?
The word that completes the sentence.
Tommy's room was _______ so his mom said that it needed to be cleaned.
a) unseen, b) unlike, c) unplug, d) untidy
What is d)untidy?
To go back and find information in the text to support your answer. You are finding:
a) questions
b) sequence
c) text evidence
d) signal word
What is c) text evidence?
The purpose of a fictional story.
a) to give information
b) to persuade the reader
c) to entertain the reader
What is c) to entertain the reader?
The details of where a person lives or works.
What is an address?
The conjunction that correctly fits into this sentence.
We had soup ______salad for lunch.
a) for b) and c) yet d) or
What is a) and?
The word with the syllables correctly divided.
a) rab-bit
b) fi-nish
c) gall-on
d) scru-b
What is a) rab-bit?
The difference between compare and contrast.
Compare is finding items that are the same.
Contrast is finding items that are different.
Writing that tells readers how to do or making something.
What is how-to books?
A word part with a single vowel sound.
What is syllable?
Bonus: 100 points: What is a syllable that has a short vowel sound followed by one or more consonants?
Find the conjunction in this sentence.
Shay wore a coat, for it was cold.
What is for?
The suffix in the word sadly.
What is -ly?
Little Miss Muffet, sat on a tuffet, eating her curds and whey.
There along came a big spider, who sat down beside her, and frightened Miss Muffet away.
Find the cause and the effect within this nursery rhyme.
Cause- spider sat down by Miss Muffet
Effect- Miss Muffet was frightened and went away
Writing that tells about a person's life.
What is a biography?
A word that connects ideas in a sentence.
What are conjunctions?
We can go to the park. We can get ice cream.
Make these sentences into one compound sentence.
Answers may vary.
Example: We can go to the park and get ice cream.
Fill in the blank with the correct spelling.
Suzy was very ___________ for her family and friends.
a) gratful b) gratfle c) grateful d) gratefull
What is c) grateful?
Bonus: 100 Points- What is the suffix in the word grateful?