Story Comprehension
Vocabulary Strategies
Grammar
Comprehension Strategies
Spelling and Phonics
100
In this story, a young girl and her grandmother mail letters back and forth to each other, even though they don't speak the same language.
What is "Dear Juno"?
100
This is the opposite of a word.
What is an antonym?
100
This is a word that shows action.
What is an action verb?
100
Examples of this are fiction, nonfiction, biography, and autobiography.
What is genre?
100
This is a word part added to the beginning of a base or root word that changes the meaning of the word.
What is a prefix?
200
This nonfiction story talks about some of the problems with instant messaging.
What is "Messaging Mania"?
200
You use this to find synonyms and antonyms.
What is a thesaurus?
200
This is added to the end of most action verbs to show the past tense.
What is -ed?
200
This means to create a picture in your head about what is happening in a story.
What is visualize?
200
This prefix means "again".
What is re-?
300
In this story, a boy recycles an old toy train to make a special gift for his aunt.
What is "The Jones Family Express"?
300
You use these to figure out the meaning of a word by using the sentence or nearby sentences.
What are context clues?
300
These are the three tenses of verbs.
What are paste tense, present tense, and future tense?
300
This means to retell the important parts of a story in your own words.
What is to summarize?
300
This prefix means "before".
What is pre-?
400
This story explains all of the steps that go into illustrating a book.
What is "What Do Illustrators Do"?
400
This are words that are SPELLED the same, but may be pronounced differently or have different meanings. For example: bat and bat; row and row
What is a HOMOGRAPH?
400
You can add -s or-ing to a verb to show this tense.
What is the present tense?
400
These are three reasons why authors write stories (author's purpose).
What are to 1)entertain 2)inform and 3)persuade?
400
These suffixes are added to the end of a base word and means "one who".
What are -er and -or?
500
This story talks about the difficult process of becoming an author.
What is "Author: A True Story"?
500
This is a word that SOUNDS the same, but may be spelled differently or have different meanings. For example: write and right.
What is a HOMOPHONE?
500
You can add this word before an action verb to show the future tense.
What is "will"?
500
This includes the characters, setting, and plot of a story.
What is the story structure?
500
This prefix means wrong.
What is mis-?
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