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Main Idea and Details
Characters and Stories
Text Structure
Context Clues
Wild Card
100
The main idea of a passage is: a) How the story starts b) How the story ends c) What the whole passage was mostly about d) What the first sentence is about.
What is C?
100

What word is used to describe the highest point of tension and drama in a story?

What is climax?
100
When an author uses lots of words like first, then, next, finally, what structure are they using?
What is sequence?
100
We had to *vacate* the building when the tornado siren sounded because no one could be left in side.
What is leave empty?
100

What word is a synonym for huge?

a. excellent

b. enormous

c. enamored

d. engorged

What is b. enormous?

200

Main Idea: Classes benefit from many different styles of teaching. 

What is a good supporting detail:

a. Some kids learn better doing things hands on.

b. You have to go to college to be a teacher

c. It is important to practice writing in cursive.

What is a. some kids learn better doing things hands on.

200

When you summarize a story, what five steps help you do it?

What is Somebody, Wanted, But, So, Then?

200
What is the text structure below? A paperback and a kindle are both ways to read a book. Paperbacks take up a lot of space on your book shelf, but one kindle can hold thousands of books in just the space of a tablet.
What is compare and contrast?
200
My body was still *quivering* after my brother jumped out from behind the bush to scare me.
What is shaking?
200
At least how many times should you read a story and its questions?

3 times!

300

Supporting Detail: Some people enjoy garlic flavored ice cream.

What is the main idea

a. There are some unusual ice cream flavors

b. Chocolate ice cream is the best

c. Ice cream is sold mostly during hot weather

d. I love ice cream

a. There are some unusual ice cream flavors

300

How the reader feels about the text while reading?


What is the mood ?

300
What is the text structure below? When I unrolled the carpet on my living room floor, I accidentally bumped into the table. The table fell with a crash and the green potted plant on top of it tumbled onto the hardwood floor. What a mess!
What is cause and effect?
300
The giant ice cream sundae was so *scrumptious* that I ate the entire thing.
What is delicious?
300

What is the theme of a story?


The lesson or message

400
What is the main idea of this paragraph? I believe that children should not have homework on the weekends. Children needs time to play. They also need to spend time with their families. Some kids have extra activities like karate or dance. Homework for children on the weekends is a bad idea.
What is children should not have homework on the weekends?
400

Narrator is not a character, but sees the world through only one character's eyes and thoughts


Third Person Point of View

400
What kind of writing is shown below? (Hint: look at the punctuation!) "When will we eat dinner?" I asked mom. Mom said, "Soon."
What is dialogue?
400
The student tried to *assimilate* the information so that he could understand how satellites orbit in space.
What is learn?
400
What is a stanza?
What is a section of a poem?
500

A scene that interrupts the normal chronological sequence of events in a story to depict something that happened at an earlier time

a. tone

b. flashback

c. assonance

d. mood

What is b. flashback?

500

What is it called when you find proof that something is true?

What is evidence?

500

If a story is told using "I" and "me" what point of view is it?


What is 1st person point of view?

500
Where we live in Northern Maine, the winters are quite harsh. Each year we fly to a warm climate for a break from the cold weather. It feels like *utopia* every time we step off the plane at our destination.
What is dreamland?
500
Describe the term "point of view."
What is the way a character tells something the way THEY see it, and this might be different from how another character sees it?