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Poetry
Context Clues
Text Features
Mystery
100
What a selection is mostly about
Main Idea
100
A group of lines in poetry, similar to a paragraph.
Stanza
100
The rays from the sun shined splendidly through the bedroom window. What does the word splendidly mean?
gorgeous, dazzling, excellent
100
This text feature helps me know what words are important in the text
What are bolded words
100
True or False: fairy tales, legends, short stories, and novels are non fiction?
False
200
These give more information about the Main Idea
Supporting Details
200
A group of words, they go from the left to the right and may or may not have punctuation at the end.
What is Line
200
We were so hungry that we didn't leave a single particle of the cookies on the plate. What does particle mean?
What is piece or crumb
200
This helps the reader find the topics in the text in the order they can be read. They are often found at the beginning of a book or magazine.
What is Table of Contents
200
"Big" and "dig", "can" and "man", "sing" and "ring" are examples of words that
Rhyme in a poem
300
Minerals are substances in rocks that industries use to manufacture products. Unlike plants and animals, minerals are not alive. Most minerals are hard, and many of them have to be dug from under the ground. A practice known as mining is used to bring the minerals from beneath the earth's surface. Some minerals, such as coal, can be used in the form in which they are found. However, most minerals have to be changed in some way before they can be used. Oil is broken down into many valuable products, such as gasoline and natural gas. Which sentence tells the main idea of the story? a. Minerals used in industries are mined from beneath the earth. b. Minerals are found in rocks. c. Oil is broken down into gasoline and natural gas. d. Mining is the practice of bringing minerals up from underground.
What is (a) Minerals used in industries are mined from beneath the earth.
300
Poetry that does not rhyme.
What is Free Verse
300
When Fido had a juicy bone, a cozy place to lie, and me petting him, he was in paradise. What does paradise mean?
a place of extreme happiness
300
An alphabetical list of important words in a text with their definitions, often found at the end of a text.
What is Glossary
300
A type of text that includes textbooks, encyclopedias, newspapers, and biographies
Non-fiction Text
400
A mother rabbit is gentle when she cares for her offspring. Before they are born, she builds a soft padded nest in a hollow scraped under the grass or in a burrow between the large roots of a tree. She carefully shreds leaves and collects grass to line the nest. Then she pulls bits of fur from her coat to make a warm bed. When baby rabbits are born, they have no fur and they cannot see. Because of this, the mother rabbit never leaves the nest without covering it with more leaves and grass to protect her offspring. What is the main idea of this story? a. Rabbits live in nests or burrows b. The mother rabbit uses her own fur to make a warm bed c. Rabbits are gentle d. A mother rabbit carefully cares for her babies
What is (d) A mother rabbit carefully cares for her babies
400
What do we call a poem that tells a story?
What is Narrative Poem
400
Dylan goes to the Air and Space Museum every chance he gets because he is fascinated by planes. What does fascinated mean?
interested in or curiosity of
400
Words, phrases or sentences that help the reader understand a picture, photograph or illustration
What is a Caption
400
Words that mean the same thing
What are synonyms
500
Sand is made when rocks break into smaller pieces. Over a long period of time, wind, frost, and rain work against mountain cliffs and break off pieces of rock which fall down the mountainside. As the rock bounces down, it breaks off other pieces of rock it hits, and also breaks into smaller pieces itself. The water of rivers and oceans ruch against rocks, abreaking them into smaller and smaller pieces. The heavy ice of glaciers scrapes and grinds the rocks it moves along. the ice carries the sand it has made and dumps it in other places. All over the world, the ocean waves tear at the rocks along the shore, wearing them down until finally the rocks are so small they become what we call sand. What is this story mainly about? a. wind, frost, and rain b. Making sand c. Journey of a rock d. Beaches around the world
What is (b) Making sand
500
When a line of a poem ends without punctuation and another starts on the next line.
What is line break
500
Catherine carried the delicate china to the table very carefully. What does delicate mean?
fragile, easily breakable or damaged
500
Images that show how something appears in real life, helping the reader understand exactly what something looks like.
What is a Photograph
500
What are the Elements of a Plot Structure?
exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution