These are the two main elements needed in order to make predictions about a story.
What are details from the story and personal experiences (background information)?
100
This is the beginning of the story that provides background information about characters, setting, situation, etc.
(HINT: Think Plot Mountain)
What is the exposition?
100
The word retribution has this meaning.
What is a punishment or revenge?
100
Proper nouns are more _______ than common nouns.
What is specific?
100
When writing a letter this goes in the upper right hand corner.
What is the heading? (Includes address and date)
200
You should look in this section of the bus schedule if you are planning on travelling on Thanksgiving Day. (HINT: weekdays, weekends, holidays, summer, winter)
What is the holiday section?
200
This is the point of highest suspense or tension in a story.
What is the climax?
200
This word root means "judge".
What is -jud-?
200
True or false: To form the plural of a noun that ends in a consonant + y, change the y to an i and add es.
What is true?
200
When writing a new ending to a story the new version must match this from the original version.
What is the point-of-view/style?
300
This is the effect that making predictions has on readers.
(HINT: makes the reader lose interest, keeps the reader engaged, makes the story less suspenseful, makes the story more believable)
What is it helps keep the reader engaged in the story?
300
The part of the story where the problem is solved and everything is settled.
What is the resolution?
300
The word preliminary has this word root.
What is -limin-?
300
If a noun can be perceived by one of the five senses (touch, taste, sight, sound, smell) it is this type of noun.
What is a concrete noun?
300
The greeting of a letter is placed here.
What is the upper left?
400
This is how movie theatre schedules are typically arranged.
What is by time?
400
Foreshadowing helps create this emotion in a story.
What is suspense?
400
The word judicious can also mean this.
What is wise or smart? (think before you act)
400
Give an example of an abstract noun.
What is (student response, judged by teacher)?
400
These are the two main types of letters.
What is a friendly letter and a business letter?
500
This is the best procedure for making predictions while reading a story.
What is making predictions while you are reading and then modifying them as more details come up.
500
Chronological order means that the story events are presented in this manner.
What is the order in which they happened in time? (1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.)
500
Create a sentence that uses the word tribute correctly.
What is (student example, judged by teacher)?
500
True or false: This sentence uses possessive nouns correctly:
"The two brothers' invention was a children's game; each player's marker was an animal."
What is true?
500
When writing a descriptive essay about someone you must include these four things.
What is a main impression, concrete examples/anecdotes, sensory details, information about how they affected your life.