Reading
The location and time of a story
What is the setting?
This part of an essay tells what the topic will be.
What is the introduction?
What planet was known as the 9th planet?
What is Pluto.
I love going to baseball games they are so much fun.
The incorrect sentence above is an example of what type of sentence? A sentence, fragment, or run on.
What is a run-on sentence.
When an author has a character act in a way that we don't expect them to.
Which signpost is it?
Contrasts and Contradictions
A word opposite in meaning to another
What is an antonym?
This is a short version of the story that includes just the important details.
What is the summary?
A giant wave caused by an earthquake under the ocean
What is a tsunami?
What is the action part of the sentence is called?
What is the predicate/ verb.
When you're reading and suddenly a character notices or understands something.
Which signpost is it?
Aha Moment
This text structure could be used if an author wanted to describe the differences and similarities between cats and dogs.
What is compare and contrast?
This type of writing is when you try and convince someone of your opinion on a specific topic.
What is persuasive writing?
The sudden shaking of the ground, as a result of movement in the earth's crust, is called what?
What is an earthquake.
A word that describes a noun
What is an adjective?
When you're reading and a character asks himself a really difficult question.
Which signpost is it?
Tough Questions
This is the main message the author wants to convey in his/her story. This is the moral is the lesson that the writer wants you to learn from the story.
What is a theme?
When the story is told from the perspective of the narrator, using words like "I" or "me"
What is first person?
What do we call rock when it has melted?
What is lava.
This type of word is a person place or thing
What is a noun
When you're reading and a character takes another character and gives them advice.
Which signpost is it?
Words of the Wiser
The cat is meowing at its owner. It is probably hungry.
The first sentence is an observation. The second sentence is an _________.
What is an inference?
what is the last paragraph in an essay known as?
the conclusion
True or false: you can find aluminum in cars and airplanes.
true
The sloth may stay in the tree all day.
The helping verb in the sentence above is _____.
What is may?
When you're reading and notice a word, phrase, object, or situation repeated over and over.
Which signpost is it?
Again and Again