Reading Skills
What is the main message or most important point an author wants the reader to understand from a text?
What is central idea
What does the suffix “-ness” mean when added to a word like kindness?
What is the state or quality of being (kind)
What kind of figurative language is used in the sentence: “Her smile was as bright as the sun”?
What is simile
What type of nonfiction tells the story of someone’s life written by another person?
What is a biography
What part of speech describes a noun?
What is an adjective
If a story teaches that “honesty is always the best policy,” what is that called?
What is theme
What does the root “-spec-” mean in words like inspect or spectator?
What is look / What is see
What type of figurative language uses sound words like bang and buzz?
What is onomatopoeia
What type of nonfiction tells the story of someone’s life written by that person?
What is an autobiography
What part of speech describes a verb, adjective, or another adverb?
What is an adverb
If an author writes an article to convince readers to move to Canada, what is the author’s purpose?
What is persuade
What is a synonym for “joyful”?
What is happy
Identify the figurative language: “The lawn was an eyesore.”
What is metaphor
What kind of nonfiction focuses on one specific period or event in a person’s life?
What is a memoir
How is poetry usually different from prose?
What is poetry uses line breaks, rhythm, and figurative language; prose uses sentences and paragraphs
If the author uses words like “joyful,” “bright,” and “excited,” what tone might the story have?
What is cheerful / What is happy
What is an antonym for “brave”?
What is cowardly / What is afraid
What is being personified in the sentence “The wind whispered through the trees”?
What is wind
What type of nonfiction reads like a story but tells true events?
What is a nonfiction narrative
What are the “paragraphs” in a poem called?
What are stanzas
A passage that explains the cause of pollution and the effects it has on animals uses what text structure?
What is cause and effect
Identify the pronoun in this sentence: “She made the cake herself.”
What is herself
“A warm, buttery air filled the theater as the popcorn machine whirred behind the counter.”
What is sensory language / What is smell
What is the purpose of a compare-and-contrast essay?
What is to show similarities and differences between two subjects
What two sound devices are common in poetry that give it musical quality?
What are rhyme and rhythm