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Author's Purpose
Vocabulary
Sentence Conventions
Figurative Language
MISC.
100

True or False: The Author's Purpose is the same thing as a central idea?

FALSE

100

the purpose and point of the paragraph

What is the main idea/central idea?

100

the boy ran away.

What is wrong with this sentence?

What is needs a capital letter?

100

a comparison using "like" or "as"

What is a simile?

100

The thought of eating a rat is ABHORRENT to most people.

What is the Horrible/ Nasty

200
The author's attitude or feeling on a subject that can help you find the author's purpose.

What is tone?

200

the moral/lesson learned

What is theme?

200

Did you see the boy run He is going to the store.

What is missing?

What is a question mark?

200

giving an object human qualities

What is personification?

200

Over the holidays, families can show their GENEROSITY by donating food to the homeless.

Willingness to give
300

The reason why the author wrote the text

What is author's purpose?

300

A conclusion reached by using an educated guess.

What is an inference?

300

Which is the correct spelling?

A. acomplish

B. accomplish

C. accomplissh

D. acomplich


What is B. accomplish?

300

Makes a comparison without like or as: You are a shining star in the classroom!

What is a metaphor?

300

When you read you often come to words that you don't know. One way to find out a words meanings is to look for_________________________________

What is Context Clues?

400
True or False: Finding the Author's Purpose is only when you know that the text was written to either inform, entertain or persuade the audience. 

FALSE

400

anything that helps to prove that something is or is not true

What is evidence?

400

The boy said, I am going to the store.

What is missing?

What are quotation marks?

400

BOOM!

BAM!

Bzzzzzzz!

Ringgggg!

What is onomatopoeia?

400

The garrulous boy rambled on continuously as he told his mother about his day at school.
What does garrulous mean?

What is Talkative?

500

The first step in finding the author's purpose

What is identifying the central idea?
500

diagrams, timelines, captions, photographs, graphs, subtitles, headings

What are text features?

500

Which is correct?

A. The teacher Mrs. Davis teaches 6th grade ELA.

B. The teacher, Mrs. Davis, teaches 6th grade ELA.

C. The teacher "Mrs. Davis" teaches 6th grade ELA.

What is B. The teacher, Mrs. Davis, teaches 6th grade ELA.

500

an exaggeration; For example, I am so hungry I could eat a horse!

What is hyperbole?

500

The date of Spring Break.

What is March 25 - April 1st, (10 more school days) !!!!