Parts of Speech
This part of speech names a person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
This type of sentence contains only one independent clause.
What is a simple sentence?
Why was the boy in The Golden Windows allowed to take a holiday and spend the day doing anything he wished?
What is because he had worked hard helping his father (or worked hard on the farm)?
What fashion item did Roger try to get money to buy by stealing Mrs. Jones's purse?
What are blue suede shoes?
This vocabulary term refers to evidence, quotes, or details taken directly from a passage to support an answer or claim.
What is textual evidence?
Identify the verb in this sentence: "The boy ran down the dark street."
What is ran?
A compound sentence is created by joining two independent clauses using a semicolon or one of these.
What is a coordinating conjunction (or FANBOYS)?
When the boy finally reaches the house on the hill, what are the windows actually made of?
What is normal glass?
What is the full name of the woman who drags Roger to her house?
Who is Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones?
This type of writing tells a true personal story or experience from the author's own life.
What is a personal narrative?
This part of speech modifies or describes a noun or pronoun.
What is an adjective?
Identify the sentence type: "Although Roger was scared, he washed his face at the sink."
What is a complex sentence?
What animal did the little girl show the boy when they played together at her house?
What is a baby cow (or calf)?
What were the last words Roger managed to say—or wanted to say—to Mrs. Jones before she shut the door?
What is "Thank you ma'am"?
This category of writing includes stories, poems, and plays created to entertain or tell a story, rather than just give factual facts.
What is a literary text?
In the phrase "She walked quickly," the word quickly belongs to this part of speech.
What is an adverb?
Identify the sentence type: "The boy walked to the hill, and he looked at the windows."
What is a compound sentence?
When the sun began to set, the little girl pointed across to another hill. Whose house had the golden windows all along?
What is the boy's own house?
When Mrs. Jones goes behind the screen to cook, she leaves her purse on the day bed where Roger could easily grab it and run. Why does Roger choose to sit on the far side of the room where she can see him?
What is because he wants to show her that he can be trusted (or he did not want to be mistrusted)?
Articles, biographies, and textbooks are examples of this text type, which provides facts and information about real-world topics.
What is an informational text?
Words like and, but, or, and because belong to this part of speech, which connects words, phrases, or clauses.
What is a conjunction?
A complex sentence must contain at least one independent clause and at least one of these.
What is a dependent (or subordinate) clause?
At the end of the story, what major lesson did the boy tell his father he had learned?
What is that his own house has windows of gold (or appreciating what you already have at home)?
What is a lesson shared in both "The Golden Windows" and "Thank You Ma'am"?
What is appreciating what you have, kindness from strangers, or learning valuable life lessons through unexpected experiences?
This term means the main point, message, or underlying key idea that an author wants the reader to understand from a text.
What is the central idea?