Letter Sounds
Give the short sound of the letter "e"
What is /ɛ/ ?
In consonant blend the word both letters often walk together to give one sound. Which consonant blend begins with the "f" sound?
What is "ph"?
I wish I was/were the Chairman
What is was?
Give a synonym for the word " bashfull"
What is shy, timid outgoing, assured ?
When an answer cannot be found in the text you have just read. One way to find the answer is?
a. Use information from the text to answer your questions
b. Using evidence from the text to formulate a conclusion
c. Find the meaning in the text
d. Use your dictionary to help
What is "b"? Using evidence from the text to formulate a conclusion
Sound the short sound of the letter "I" and then the Long "I" sound.
What is "ih" and i ?
The vowels "ei" and "ie" in words are often an issue in spelling rules. Give one rule for spelling words with the "ei" and the "ie".
What is
spell -ei when the combination follows the letter -c, as in receive and the -ie when no c is before?
Mumps is/are a sore disease.
What is "is"?
A word opposite in meaning to the word congested is
What is empty, unfilled?
How best can you help yourselves to comprehend a text when you read it in an exam?
a. Use context clues to guide you in comprehending the passage
b. Find another word to use in the text
c. Use google to guide you
d. None of the above
What is a.?
Use context clues to guide you in comprehending the passage
Give both sounds of the letter "G" and explain the soft and hard sounds of this same letter.
What is when g meets a, o, or u, its sound is hard. When g meets e, i, or y, its sound is soft?
Spell the word which means "to accept something" from someone with the "ie or "ei" spelling rule.
What is to receive?
Has everyone/anybody seen my purse?
What is anybody?
The sentence was written in the Sunday times (2016) "This can make them, in time, more audacious and bold."
Give a word similar in meaning for the word "audacious"
What is daring?
What is alliteration, rhetorical questions and repetition?
Give at least five long "e" types and three words with each sound.
What is
Spell the word "gymnasium" and give the amount of syllables sounded in the word.
What is ___________ and 4 syllables?
Neither Anil or/nor Sunil live/lives near the park.
What is Nor or lives?
Several different species of fish inhabit these turbid shallow waters. What is an antonym for the word turbid?
What is transparent?
My teacher was stifling a laugh. It was clear she did not want the class to think she found the comment amusing.
What is the best meaning of stifling?
What is to "withhold?"
Give five words with the "ch" sounds
What is chair, chat, chase, cheese, chew, child, chin, chicken?
The lumber pieces are carved in the form of a series of gargoyle faces and grotesques. Tell what are grotesques and spell the word.
What is _______
Something repulsively ugly or distorted.
Both these boys is/are going to market.
What is "is"?
The cleaning lady has a taciturn personality but loves to sings euphoniously.
Give words similar in meaning to taciturn and euphoniously.
What is quiet/reserved and melodiously/ dulcet?
The Night is a Big Black Cat
The Night is a big black cat,
The moon is her topaz eye,
The stars are the mice she hunts at night,
In the field of the sultry sky.
by G. Orr. Clarke
What kind of literary device is mostly used in this poem?
What is metaphor?