Vocabulary
If you are going to meet some friends "pre-game," this is when you would actually meet them.
What is before the game?
This part of speech names a person, place, thing, or idea.
What are nouns?
The kids in the cafeteria line up to get their pizza. At the end of the line, several students bite into the pizza, then make a face and spit it out. From this, you can infer...
What is the pizza tastes terrible?
This is the average number of words a 9th grade student should be able to read per minute.
What is 150 correct words per minute?
Shrek's wife
Who is Fiona?
The number of people that typically perform a monologue.
What is one?
This part of speech describes, modifies or gives more information about a noun or pronoun.
What are adjectives?
The kids sat in their pajamas, looking out the window at the snowflakes falling in gray light of the early morning. They were so excited because they didn't have to go to school today! From this you can infer...
What is a snow day?
This skill means reading quickly, accurately, and with expression.
What is fluency?
The most widely spoken language in Brazil.
What is Portuguese?
If someone died of hypothermia, this was their actual cause of death.
What is low body temperature?
This part of speech shows an action or state of being.
What are verbs?
The teacher passed back her paper, laying it face down on the desk. She took one look at the paper, then angrily smashed the paper into a ball and threw it in the trashcan. From this you can infer...
What is she got a bad grade?
This is another way to say "Monitor Comprehension," which is a skill all good readers have.
What is "thinking about what you are reading"?
The white dove is a symbol of this.
What is peace?
If you circumvent a problem, you are doing this.
What is to find a way around?
This part of speech joins two words, ideas, or phrases together and shows how they are connected. (Fanboys love this part of speech.)
What are conjunctions?
He had been setting this up for a week, and was so nervous that something was going to go wrong. She would be here any minute. He would need every last second to finish spelling out his message on the football field. So far, he only had finished WILL YOU GO...he had to hurry before she and her friends arrived! From this you can infer...
What is he is going to ask her to prom?
What is...asking questions, making connections, or noticing new information?
This many milligrams make a gram.
What is 1,000?
Elephants, rhinos, and hippos are all pachyderms because they share this trait.
What is thick skin?
This part of speech shows the relationship of a noun or pronoun to another word. For example: at, on, in, from, about.
What are prepositions?
She blew on her hands to keep them warm. Her feet were wrapped in rags, and her shoulders were covered only by a thin blanket. She looked in the window, watching the family celebrate Thanksgiving. She wished she could have just one bite of the delicious meal. From this you can infer...
What is she is homeless?
This is the meaning of this equation: BK + TC = I.
What is: Background Knowledge + Text Clues = Inferencing?
This sport used the phrase "home run" long before baseball used it.
What is cricket?