Vocabulary Synonyms
Skill and Strategy
Vocabulary Definitions
The Story
More Skill and Strategy
100
movement
What is a synonym for migration?
100
time and place in which the story occurs
What is setting?
100
tending toward secrecy; not open
What is secretive?
100
Fact or Opinion: Crows migrate only as far as their favorite roosting site.
What is a fact?
100
what someone feels or thinks, someone's idea
What is an opinion?
200
eager to attack
What is a synonym for aggressive?
200
a person or animal in the story
What is a character?
200
filled with doubt
What is dubiously?
200
this adjective is used to describe crows when they do not allow humans to follow their flight pattern
What is secretive?
200
something that can be proven TRUE or FALSE
What is a fact?
300
appear
What is a synonym for materialize?
300
eyes the author is telling the story through
What is the point of view?
300
to allow or permit
What is tolerated?
300
evidence that the story is written in 1st person (2 pronouns)
What are "I", "me", and "our"? (must have 2 out of the 3)
300
a web, chart, diagram
What is a graphic organizer?
400
doubtfully
What is a synonym for dubiously?
400
looking for what is the same and what is difference
What is comparing and contrasting?
400
a feeling of anger, helplessness and despair
What is frustration?
400
she thought they were eerie, uncanny and smart
What did Mrs. Tee Van think of crows?
400
a record of events written by a person having intimate knowledge of them and based on personal observation
What is a memoir?
500
notice
What is a synonym for detect?
500
clues the author gives the reader about what is going to happen
What is a foreshadow?
500
to fix firmly in the mind
What is to imprint?
500
Crowbar slept in the apple tree, Crowbar stole food, Crowbar was secretive, Crowbar was born outside, Crowbar would warn other crows with a caw
What are reasons we know Crowbar is wild?
500
4 purposes for an author to write a story
What are to entertain, express, persuade and inform?
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