Reading
What is cause and effect?
what happened and why it happened
What does the term, "fighting like cats and dogs" mean?
Do not get along
The more you have of it, the less you see. What is it?
Darkness.
Put in alphabetical order:
fret, froth, frame, fruit, friction
What is a synonym for "tale?"
What is "story?"
What is a noun?
what is a person, place, or thing?
A non-fiction story about another person's life
Biography
What does the statement "She was on cloud 9" mean?
She was very happy
What starts with a T, ends with a T, and has T in it?
A teapot.
Put in alphabetical order:
weigh, wrath, wide, waver, weave
waver, weave, weigh, wide, wrath
Which word uses the prefix "un?"
a. united
b. uninvited
c. unicorn
d. under
B. Uninvited
What are 2 sentences that are put together with a comma and a conjunction and have a similar theme?
Compound sentences
A non-fiction story about one's own life.
Autobiography
She walked as swift as the wind to get to class on time.
What is a simile?
What is it that after you take away the whole some still remains?
Put in alphabetical order:
neighbor, many, native, muscle, make
make, many, muscle, native, neighbor
Solve the analogy
evening : dusk :: morning : ________
dawn
Poetry often includes ____________ _________ to make it more descriptive
Figurative language
Words that have opposite meaning
Antonyms
What figurative language is this?
This classroom is an icebox!
what is a metaphor
Forwards I'm heavy, but backwards I'm not. What am I?
Ton.
Put in alphabetical order:
horde, favor, gall, halfway, fountain, giver, hiker
favor, foundation, gall, giver, halfway, hiker, horde
What reference source would you use to find the longitude of Calcutta, India?
Atlas
The overall feeling of a poem
Mood
Who is the person that draws the pictures within a book?
An illustrator
What has four wheels and flies?
Put in alphabetical order:
white, whole, wisdom, whim, whose, wider
wider, wisdom, whim, white, whole, whose
Define synonyms and antonyms.
Synonyms are words that mean the same thing; antonyms are words that mean the opposite.
Give an example of a character trait to describe a character
Answers may vary:
kind, shy, funny, brave, bold
Fill in the blank:
Most fiction stories have a problem and a _______.Solution
The sea lashed out in anger at the ships, unwilling to tolerate another battle.
Personification
What has a forest but no trees, cities but no people, and rivers but no water?
A map.
Put in alphabetical order:
cross, chasm, clink, chore, cram, chrome, cake
cake, chasm, chrome, chore, clink, cram, cross
The most exciting part of a story is called what?
What is the Climax?
It's raining cats and dogs.
This is an example of what type of figurative language?
Idiom
What do you call the people in a story?
The characters
Choose the correct word:
That is (there, their, or they're) dog.
What is their?
Take me and scratch my head. What once is red is black instead. What am I?
A match.
Put in alphabetical order:
street, steam, sheet, seam, straight, stamina, shack
seam, shack, sheet, stamina, steam, straight, street
What text structure introduces a problem and tell you how to solve it?
Problem and solution
What are the 3 reasons (or purposes) why we write?
The purpose of the story is to _______, ________, or ___________.
To Inform, To Persuade, To Entertain
When the story is told from the perspective of the narrator, using words like "I" or "me"
Correct the spelling of this word:
dissapoint
disappoint
I'm where yesterday follows today and tomorrow's in the middle. What am I?
A dictionary.
Put in alphabetical order:
hammock, gasket, barrel, widget, binge, itchy, ferret, edgier
barrel, binge, edgier, ferret, gasket, hammock, itchy, widget
Combine these three sentences into one sentence.
Lily adopted a cat.
The cat is orange.
The cat is missing an eye.
Answers may vary, but general idea:
Lily adopted an orange cat that is missing an eye.
This is the last part of a paper that wraps it up. It is best to end this with an impact statement.
What is a conclusion?
What is a paragraph in a poem?
Correct the spelling of this word:
eigth
eighth
Remove nine letters from this sequence to reveal a familiar English word:
BSAINXLEATNTEARS
Bananas.
Put in alphabetical order:
pocket, plead, praise, plaid, peace, packet, phase, picket
packet, peace, phase, picket, plaid, plead, pocket, praise
To give human-like qualities to non-human things.
What is personification?
What is this sentence an example of?
Billy baked brownies for Becky.
Alliteration
What do you use when you need to find the meaning of an unknown word within the text?
Context Clues
Correct the spelling of these words:
beutiful
diferrence
dicionary
begining
beautiful
difference
dictionary
beginning
A piano.
Put in alphabetical order:
grand, guzzle, gizmo, gadget, graze, gemstone, ghost, galavant, glitter
gadget, galavant, gemstone, ghost, gizmo, glitter, grand, graze, guzzle
Define Cause and Effect.
Cause is a particular event or happening that triggers or produce one or more subsequent events. Effect is the one or more subsequent events.
How author's organize their text
Text Structure