Characteristics of Genre
A book written by the same person it is about.
What is Autobiography?
Mrs. Donalds put on tennis shoes, grabbed her racket, and yellow balls before she left her house. What is Mrs. Davidson about to go do?
What is she is going to play tennis?
Identify the part of speech: The boy was running down the street.
What is a verb?
A beverage such as cola, water, or tea will be served shortly. What is a beverage? What context clues helped you?
2x Points: What type of context clues were used in this example?
What is a drink? It says cola, water, and tea those are drinks
What is examples?
What are the school colors?
What is Orange and Green
A book that is about anything that can happen in real life.
Realisitic Fiction
2x Points!
Mrs. King jumped out of bed, got dressed in 2 minutes, and ran out of the house. Then she sped all the way to school. What we can infer happened?
What is Mrs. King was late?
Identify the part of speech: Jessica threw the basketball all the way down the court to her teammate, Alani.
What is a noun?
The blade of grass was massive compared to the tiny ant. What does massive mean? What context clues helped you?
What is huge, big, etc? Tiny helped because it is the opposite?
What is the school mascot?
Who are the Raiders
2x points
A bizarre chain of events begins when sixteen unlikely people gather for the reading of Samuel W. Westing’s will. And though no one knows why the eccentric, game-loving millionaire has chosen a virtual stranger—and a possible murderer—to inherit his vast fortune, on things for sure: Sam Westing may be dead…but that won’t stop him from playing one last game
What is Mystery
Jimmy gathered all his supplies for the day; lemons, sugar, a pitcher, paper cups, cardboard, marker and his jar of change. What was jimmy going to do that day?
What is make lemonade or lemonade stand?
2x POINTS
Identify the part of speech: She ran down the sidewalk after her dog.
What is a pronoun?
Mr. Fry is quite affable. In fact, he reminds me of Ms. Baker. Do you remember how kind she was?
What does affable mean? What context clues helped you?
What is nice, kind, etc? Kind is a synonym for affable he reminded them of Ms. Baker.
2x points
What is the librarians name?
Who is Mrs. Webb
Matteo Alacrán was not born; he was harvested.
His DNA came from El Patrón, lord of a country called Opium--a strip of poppy fields lying between the United States and what was once called Mexico. Matt's first cell split and divided inside a petri dish. Then he was placed in the womb of a cow, where he continued the miraculous journey from embryo to fetus to baby.
What is Science Fiction
Liquid rolled down John's cheek and he sniffled as he said "It is just so unfair." What can we infer?
What is John was crying or sad.
Identify the part of speech: The tall girl looked down at the short girl and asked if she needed any help.
What is an adjective?
Stealing is an infraction or the act of breaking the law.
What does infraction mean? What context clues helped?
What is the act of breaking the law?
What is the Head Principals name?
Who is Mr. Kalnbach
A book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.
What is Historical Fiction?
Sweat rolled down Anna's head as the music blared inside the school's gymnasium. She pumped her fists in the air to the beat of the music as she jumped up and down. Anna and her friends did the robot, the worm, and the nae nae together. What was Anna doing?
What is dancing?
Identify the part of speech: Mrs. white was hiding under the table, during hide and seek.
What is a preposition?
The tuba is such a corpulent instrument. I wish you would consider playing something small and light, like the flute,” said my mom.
What does corpulent mean? What context clues helped you?
What is Big or heavy? small and light
What is the 6th Grade principals name?
Who is Mr. Jewel