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Vocabulary Development
Literature Comprehension
Poetry/drama
Text Structures
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The root of the word thoughtful
What is thought?
100
A type of text that includes fables, legends, short stories, drama and novels
What is fiction?
100
"Big" and "dig", "can" and "man", "sing" and "ring" are examples of words that
What is rhyme?
100
A statement that is always true
What is a fact?
100
What quotation from the selection supports the idea that crows are playful?

A. “A crow’s voice is bold and sassy.”
B. “They swing upside down on tree branches.”
C. “While building the nest, the older crows are helped by young crows.”
D. “Each winter night thousands of crows gather to sleep in a grove of trees.”
What is B. “They swing upside down on tree branches.”?
200
The prefix mis-, as in mistake, means
What is to do something wrong?
200
A type of text that includes textbooks, encyclopedias, newspapers, and biographies
What is nonfiction?
200
When a story has actors and lots of dialogue it is a ______________________.
What is drama?
200
A comparison of two things that does not use "like" or "as", saying one thing is another.
What is a metaphor?
200
Why do the father and young helpers bring food to the mother crow?

A. She needs to stay at the nest to warn the other crows of possible danger.
B. She spends her time fighting predators that may harm her babies.
C. She spends her time gathering materials to make the nest.
D. She needs to stay at the nest while she warms the eggs.
What is D. She needs to stay at the nest while she warms the eggs.?
300
The suffix less-, as in sleepless, means
What is without something or without sleep?
300
The person or people in a story
What are characters?
300
Something that is repeated over and over again, often found in poetry.
What is a pattern or repetition?
300
When something happens, something else happens as a result, this relationship is called?
What is cause and effect?
300
What is the purpose for reading this selection?

A. to understand why some people want to protect crows
B. to find out how to stop crows from being so noisy
C. to enjoy a funny story about how crows play
D. to learn about how crows live in nature
What is D. to learn about how crows live in nature?
400
Words that mean the same thing
What are synonyms?
400
The where and when of the story, can change many times, and changing it would effect the story in many ways.
What is the setting?
400
Stars
They are like flashlights in the night sky;
God’s little helpers guiding us on our journeys.
Stars are as bright as a lighthouse on an icy, ocean night;
they are like guardians committed to bringing you home.

This poem is full of _____________.
What are similes?
400
When authors write about events in the order that they happened
What is sequence?
400
“At day’s end, streams of crows can be seen hurrying home to their special winter roosting place.”

In the sentence above, what does the author want the reader to know about how crows travel?

A. They fly south for the winter earlier than other birds.
B. They move quickly and in large groups.
C. They fly toward water during winter.
D. They make loud noises as they fly.
What is B. They move quickly and in large groups.?
500
Words that sound the same but have different meanings and spellings
What are homophones?
500
The beginning, rising action, conflict, falling action and the resolution.
What is the plot?
500
The way the lines sound in a poem when you read them and can have sort of bounce that makes poems fun to hear and read.
What is rhythm?
500
This is what a story or passage is mostly about and it helps you understand the passage better.

In "The Three Little Pigs" it is three brother pigs build houses and a big bad wolf comes and blows down two of the three houses.
What is main idea?
500
Using details from the selection, describe four ways that crows use their voices." (there are really 5)
What is 1. Tease other animals,
2. Mimic the calls of other birds,
3. warn other crows to stay out of their territory,
4. Urge other crows to come quickly.
5. Warn other crows of danger ?