Acting Up
This is like a play except you don't dress up or use props.
What is Readers Theater?
an action
What is a verb?
The noun type for a specific name like Frankenstein is..
What is a proper noun?
These small words join two or more wods, phrases or clauses.
Example: 1. The dogs and cats like playing together.
2. Do you want to ride your bike or take the bus to school?
3. Our class ran three miles so we were quiet and calm during Science class.
What is a conjunction?
These words are used in the beginning of a sentence to smooth a reader into the next sentnece and are called. (Ex: First,... Next,... In addition, ... Later,... In the end,...)
What are transition words?
poets use this to help them tell a story
What are literary devices?
This a story based on a fairytale but it has a different POV like the Wolf is a good guy.
What is a fractured fairy tale?
When something has happened already, you call this verb _________ tense.
What is past tense?
A noun type that is not specific like (school) is called ...
What is a common noun?
These words the, a and an are called this.
Example: an orange. a banana. the students
What are articles?
In the beginning of a paragraph or essay this tells the reader what the story is about. It is called ...
Who is a topic sentence?
These words - onomatopoeia (slither, crunch, slurp), alliteration (sparkly small stars) or personification (the tree was waving its branches goodbye).
What is an example of figurative language?
The October moonlight used by farmers a long time ago to harvest their crops is called this.
What is the Harvest Moon?
This verb tense is not used now or in the present nor was it used in the past. It is going to happen in a few days. This is called what kind of tense.
Example: I will get my new bike on Saturday.
What is future tense?
This type of noun can't be seen, smelled, touched, heard or tasted. It is something internal called an...
What is an abstract noun?
You can start you sentence using these words in writing to get attention. Examples: WAIT! STOP! WOW! are called this.
What is an interjection?
These 3-4 sentences give specific information about the topic and is called...
What are the detail sentences?
Like a paragraph but for poems
What is a stanza?
The lesson learned in a folk tale like "The Talking Fish" is...
What is the moral of the story?
The name of these verbs (am, are, is)) are called this.
Examples: He was hungry. They were tired. I am ten years old. She is an athlete.
Who are helping verbs or 'to be' verbs'?
This noun you can smell, touch, taste, hear and see.
Hint - synonym to cement
What is a concrete noun?
This word takes the place of a noun.
Examples:
I, you, he, she, it,
we, you, they, my, his, her, its, theirs
mine, yours, his, hers, its, ours, theirs
Who is a pronoun?
At the end of a paragraph/essay, this sentence ends the story usually by restating the topic and using a transition word like "in the end or finally) and it's called.
What is a concluding sentence?
the thing that separates 2 stanzas in a poem is called
What is a line or stanza break?
The bad guy in a story is called...
What is the protagonist?
When you do something now, it is this kind of verb.
What is a 'present-tense' verb?
When there is a group of nouns (flock of birds, litter of kittens, school of dolphins etc.) this noun is called...
What is a collective noun?
Describing words for nouns are called this.
Examples: scary cat, pretty bird, blue dolphin
What are adjectives?
These things we add to sentences so readers can pause or stop before they continue reading. Sometimes it tells the reader a questions or gives us excitement.
What is punctuation (a period, a comma, a question mar, an exclamation point)?
This form of writing has been around forever.
How long has poetry been around?