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Reading skills
Famous Authors
Great Books for Young Readers
Literary Terms
Parts of speech
100
Underlining information, circling key terms, and taking notes in the margins.
What is ANNOTATION?
100
The Raven
Who is Edgar Allen Poe?
100
Percy could have sworn his pre-algebra teacher turned into a monster and tried to kill him. When Percy's mom finds out, she knows it's time that he knew the truth about where he came from, and that he go to the one place he'll be safe.
What is The Lightning Thief?
100
The central idea or message in a story
What is Theme?
100
A word that connects two phrases or clauses together such as and, but, or so.
What is a conjunction?
200
The author directly stated this in a passage to let you know his main point.
What is the directly stated main idea?
200
Harry Potter
Who J.K Rowling?
200
The story centers on twelve-year-old Jonas, who lives in a seemingly ideal world. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver does he begin to understand the dark secrets behind his fragile community.
What is The Giver by Lois Lowery
200
The most exciting point in the story; the turning point.
What is the CLIMAX?
200
A person place or thing.
What is a noun?
300
Words or phrases that surround a word in a sentence and give you hints to the word's meaning.
What are context clues?
300
Romeo and Juliet
Who is Shakespeare?
300
In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue—Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent).
What is Divergent by Veronica Roth?
300
A comparison between two things using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
300
It's what you "do"
What is a verb?
400
Sentences that support the main idea of a passage.
What are supporting details?
400
Thank You M'am
Who is Langston Hughes?
400
According to Ponyboy, there are two kinds of people in the world: greasers and socs.
What is The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
400
The leaves danced in the wind.
What is personification?
400
The present, the present participle, the past, and the past participle.
What are the principle parts of verbs?
500
One of the first things that "goo readers" do?
What is make a prediction?
500
The Watson's go to Birmingham
Who is Christopher Paul Curits?
500
The State of Panem—which needs to keep its tributaries subdued and its citizens complacent—may have created the Games, but mindless television is the real danger, the means by which society pacifies its citizens and punishes those who fail to conform.
What is The Hunger Games?
500
"He kept spinning a story about what had happened, and I kept waiting for his nose to grow."
What is an Allusion?
500
words that tell "anything a plane a plane can do to a cloud" ( or "a mouse to a hole")
What are prepositions?