Reading Comprehension
What is the main idea of a story?
What is the most important point the author wants to tell us?
What is a synonym for “happy”?
What is “joyful” or “glad”?
Is this sentence correct: “He run to the park”?
No, it should be “He runs to the park.”
What is a simile?
What is a comparison using “like” or “as”?
What is the setting of a story?
What is where and when the story takes place?
What do you call the problem a character faces?
What is the conflict?
What is a prefix in the word “unhappy”?
What is “un-” and it means “not”?
Name the subject in this sentence: “The big dog barked loudly.”
What is “The big dog”?
What is a metaphor?
What is a comparison that says one thing is another?
What does "text structure" mean?
What is the way a text is organized—like compare/contrast, problem/solution, etc.?
What is a theme?
What is the lesson or message the author wants the reader to learn
What does the suffix “-ful” mean in the word “hopeful”?
What is “full of”?
What is an adjective?
What is a word that describes a noun?
What type of figurative language is this? “The leaves danced in the wind.”
What is personification?
What text structure shows how things are alike and different?
What is compare and contrast?
What is a summary?
What is a short retelling of the most important parts of a story
Use context clues to define: “The colossal elephant towered over the small jeep.”
What is “colossal” means very big?
What is a compound sentence?
What is a sentence made of two simple sentences joined by a conjunction?
“Busy as a bee” is an example of what?
What is a simile?
Name two text features that help you understand nonfiction text.
What are headings, bold words, captions, charts, etc.?
What is the difference between first-person and third-person point of view?
First-person uses “I” and “me,” third-person uses “he,” “she,” or “they.”
What’s an antonym for “brave”?
What is “scared” or “cowardly”?
Fix the sentence: “i have a book about space.”
What is “I have a book about space.”?
What does “break the ice” mean in this sentence: “She told a joke to break the ice”?
What is to make people feel more comfortable?
What is the central idea of a nonfiction text?
What is the most important idea the author wants the reader to understand?