Parts of Speech
This part of speech names a person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
This figure of speech compares two things using like or as.
What is a simile?
In Reading Buddies, this is how animals help students in the classroom.
What is by helping them become more confident readers?
This acronym stands for Persistence, Understanding, Leadership, Success, and Effort — and staff encourage everyone to “keep your Truesdell ___ beating strong."
PULSE
This sentence introduces the main idea of a paragraph.
What is a topic sentence?
This part of speech shows action or a state of being.
What is a verb?
This figure of speech gives human qualities to nonhuman things.
What is personification?
In My Life with the Chimpanzees, this is what Jane Goodall’s main contribution to science was.
What is studying chimpanzees in the wild and discovering how they use tools?
This is how many tardies it takes to get a lunch detention.
What is 3 tardies?
This paragraph wraps up your essay and restates the main idea.
What is the conclusion?
This part of speech describes or modifies a noun.
What is an adjective?
This is an extreme exaggeration used for effect.
What is a hyperbole?
This is the reason Hachiko waited at the train station every day.
What is because he was waiting for his owner to come home?
This is the hero who runs the North Office.
These sentences provide facts, examples, and details to support the main idea.
What are supporting sentences?
This part of speech modifies a verb, adjective, or another adverb.
What is an adverb?
This is a commonly used phrase that means something different from its literal meaning.
What is an idiom?
In The Black Hole of Technology, this is the main warning the author gives about technology use.
What is that technology can distract us and pull us away from important real-life tasks or relationships?
These three amazing ELA teachers helped students become stronger readers and writers this year.
Who are Crawford, Higgins, and Bissell?
These are words or phrases used to connect ideas smoothly.
What are transitions?
This part of speech connects words, phrases, or clauses.
What is a conjunction?
This figure of speech compares two things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
In What on Earth Is Left to Explore?, this is the author's main argument about modern-day exploration.
What is that there are still many places on Earth and beyond that are left to explore?
The four administrators at Truesdell and the grades they are the admins for.
This sentence presents the main argument or claim of an essay.
What is a thesis statement?