Context Clues
The grasshoppers devoured everything around them.
What does devoured mean?
What is "ate"?
What does encounter mean?
What is "an unexpected meeting"?
What do you call a group of words that doesn't express a complete thought?
Example: Ate chocolate
What is a fragment?
Does this sentence use figurative or literal language?
"I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse!"
What is figurative language?
What type of sentence is this called:
I ate a bunch of chocolate and then I had a stomachache and then I got rushed to the hospital then I had 5 doughnuts then I had a sugar attack then I felt really sick then I took a big nap and felt better.
What is a run-on sentence?
Cherry pie made Leon ecstatic; on the other hand, blueberry cake made him feel sad.
What does ecstatic mean?
What is "very happy"?
What are drawbacks?
What are "disadvantages"?
What is another word for "verb"?
What is a predicate?
What is an oversimplified belief about a certain person, group, or issue to present a conventional image or opinion; good writers avoid using them?
What is a stereotype?
What type of writing tells about facts/ explains about something?
What is informative/expository?
My friend and I will part company after dinner. I won't see him until he returns from vacation.
What does the word part mean in this sentence?
What is "separate"?
What does resolve mean?
What is "to settle, explain, or solve an issue"?
Words like "and, but, or" that join together phrases and clauses are what part of speech?
What are conjunctions?
Words that are spelled the same, but have different meanings are called what?
Examples: read, lead, bat, bass, bow, close
What are homographs?
What type of writing gives opinions or explains one side of an issue?
What is argumentative?
He tried to quell the rumors about his illness, but they continued.
What is the meaning of the word quell?
What does contradicted mean?
What is "disagreed with"?
What is a concrete noun?
A person, place, thing, or idea that you can experience using your 5 senses.
What do you call a poem that doesn't rhyme?
What is free verse?
A strong paragraph at the 5th grade level should be how many sentences?
What is 5-8 sentences?
Animals live in diverse and varied communities.
In the sentence above, what is the antonym of diverse?
What is "alike"?
What does artificial mean?
What is "a thing not made by nature; fake"?
Words like "up, under, below, above, with, from" are what part of speech?
What are prepositions?
What does personification mean?
What is giving human-like qualities to an animal or object?
What is the term for when someone just copies/pastes someone else's work and doesn't rewrite it in their own words?
What is plagiarism?