Writing
This is the first letter of a sentence, and it should always be this kind of letter.
What is a capital letter?
Birds have this instead of teeth.
What is a beak or bill?
The direction you face when the sun rises.
What is east?
A person, place, or thing.
What is a noun?
The people or animals in a story.
What are characters?
This type of sentence asks something and usually ends with a question mark.
What is a question?
Penguins live mostly in this type of habitat.
There are seven of these large areas on Earth.
What are continents?
These words describe a noun, like “big” or “happy.”
When you guess what will happen next in a story using clues.
What is predicting?/What is making an inference?
“They are playing." Which word is the pronoun.
What is "they"?
Some birds, like hummingbirds, visit flowers to drink nectar. While doing this, they carry tiny grains from one flower to another. What is this process called?
What is pollination?
A large area of land that is higher than the land around it. It has a peak at the top.
What is a mountain?
An action word like “run,” “jump,” or “write.”
What is a verb?
A type of story or book that is based on real-life events or facts.
What is non-fiction?
A sentence that introduces the main idea.
What is a topic sentence?
Birds move from one place to another, often in the fall, to find food or warmer weather.
What is migration?
These are imaginary lines that go around the Earth from east to west and help tell how far north or south a place is.
What is latitude?
Words that can be used as a 'placeholder' for a noun. For example, "he", "she", and "they."
What is a pronoun?
These are small details that help explain the main idea.
What are supporting details?
A group of sentences about one main idea.
People sometimes watch birds to know what the weather might do. If birds fly low in the sky or gather together on the ground, they may be warning of this.
What is a storm/bad weather?
If you are standing at the top of a mountain, which landform might you see below?
What is a valley or plain?
This is the smallest part of a word that has meaning. Often thought of as "word legos" in English.
What is a morpheme?
This character is in most of the story and the story is mostly about them.
What is a main character?