Story Comprehension
Vocabulary Strategies
Grammar
Comprehension Strategies
Spelling and Phonics
100
In this story, children learned how to raise butterflies.
What is "Home-Grown Butterflies"?
100
When you put to words together to form a new word with a new meaning. For example: butter+fly=butterfly
What are compound words?
100
A person, place or thing that is NOT capitalized.
What is a common noun?
100
When you restate the main points of a story in your own words.
What is summarize?
100
The digraph that forms _ _ elly; _ _ irt; _ _ ake
What is SH?
200
In this story, Angel raised money to help save the Chaffee Zoo in Fresno.
What is "Here's My Dollar"?
200
Words that are opposites.
What are antonyms?
200
A noun that names a specific person, place or thing. This needs a capital.
What is a proper noun?
200
When you make a guess as to what a story is going to be about.
What is a prediction?
200
The letter that is silent in the following words: knot; knight; knock; know
What is K?
300
In this story, Amanda started a business selling pies.
What is "Boomtown"?
300
You use this book to find the correct spelling and meaning of a word. It is in alphabetical order.
What is a dictionary?
300
ONE of something.
What is singular?
300
You use this strategy to find the meaning of an unknown word within or in a nearby a sentence.
What are context clues?
300
The two words that form the contraction "I've".
What is "I" and "have"?
400
In this story, a family dreamed of having a better home.
What is "A Castle on Viola Street"?
400
You use this book to find synonyms and antonyms of words.
What is a thesaurus?
400
More than one. You usually add an -s to the end of a word to form it.
What is plural?
400
The events of a story told in sequence. This includs the problem and solution.
What is the plot?
400
You get this contraction when you combine the following two words: will; not
What is won't?
500
In this story, Chinese immigrants moved to California to find work and make better lives.
What is "Coasting to California"?
500
In you put the following words in alphabetical order, this word will be last. stripe; string; strong; strength; stroke
What is "strong"?
500
This kind of noun shows ownership. Usually formed by adding 's at the end.
What is a possessive noun?
500
This can be fiction, non-fiction, biography, autobiography or fantasy.
What is the genre?
500
Examples of these are th, sh, ch, and wh.
What are digraphs?
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