ELA MCAS Jeopardy

Parts of Speech

100

This type of word DESCRIBES a person, place, or thing.

What is an adjective?

200

This type of word is a person, place, or thing that is specific and always capitalized.

What is a proper noun?

300

This type of word is when two words come together to form a new word with a new meaning.

What is a compound word?

400

This type of word DESCRIBES action words and typically ends in -ly.

What is an adverb?

500

This type of word is formed when combining two words with an apostrophe to make the word shorter.

What is a contraction?

Genres

100

This can be a book or an article and gives the reader factual information.

What is non-fiction/informational?

200

This genre includes stanzas and lines.

What is poetry?

300

This genre tends to use talking animals to teach a moral or lesson in a short story.

What is a fable?

400

This genre includes stories that are not true and are made up by the author.

What is fiction?

500

This genre uses stories to tell how certain things began or came to be in different cultures.

What is a folktale or legend?

Strategies

100

This strategy reminds you how to start every open response question.

What is Turn the Question Around or Restate the question.

200

This strategy helps you answer multiple choice questions by getting rid of the choices that you know can't be right first.

What is the process of elimination?

300

This strategy is used when you need to read something quickly in order to get the main idea.

What is skimming?

400

This strategy is used when you need to read something quickly to find specific information.

What is scanning?

500

This strategy is used in order to prove to yourself that your answer is correct.

What is going back into the text and underlining evidence?

Verbs

100

Find the verb in the following sentence: The girl caught the ball.

What is caught?

200

Find the verb in the following sentence: When will the rain stop?

What is stop?

300

Find the verbs in the following sentence: He stirred the batter and baked the cake.

What are stirred and baked?

400

Find the verbs in the following sentence: She skis down the hill and flies off the jump.

What are skis and flies?

500

Find the verbs in the following sentence: We went to the store and bought lots of vegetables.

What are went and bought?

Adjectives

100

Find the adjective in the following sentence: He walked on a stone wall.

What is stone?

200

Find the adjective in the following sentence: She wore a red sweater.

What is red?

300

Find the adjectives in the following sentence: He bought three yellow bananas.

What are three and yellow?

400

Find the adjectives in the following sentence: She picked up the orange and put it in the big, brown bin.

What are big and brown?

500

Find the adjectives in the following sentence: The two sisters threw the giant ball to each other.

What are two and giant?