What three ways can you make a long -a sound in a word??
What is -ai, -ay, and -a_e?
100
What four ways can you make a long -e sound in a word?
What is -ea, -ee, -e_e, and -y
100
What four ways can you make a long -i sound in a word?
What is -igh, -i_e, -i, and -y
100
What are the three ways you can make a long -o sound in a word?
What is -ow, -oa and -o
100
What is a diagraph and provide one example?
What is two or more consants together that make only one sound? -ch, or -tch
200
What does adding the suffix -er turn a verb into?
What is a noun
200
What is two words that are brought together to make one word with the same meaning?
Often there is an apostrophe added to the word to hold the place of letters that were taken away
What is a contraction?
200
When adding –ed to a word ending in y, what happens?
What is the y changes to i?
200
When do syllables have a long vowel sound??
What is when they end in a vowel?
200
What is it called when letters are added to the end of a word to change its meaning?
what is a suffix?
300
What is a suffix?
What is a group of letters added at the end of a word that changes its meaning.
300
What are inferences?
What is things you know because of clues in a story?
300
What is a fact?
What is something that can be proven to be true?
300
What does the idiom "Go the extra mile" mean?
What is do more than you have to?
300
What does the suffix -less mean? and provide an example.
What is not having or without. Ex. helpless, fearless, hopeless....
400
What are the three reasons authors write?
What is to entertain, inform, or persuade?
400
State four contractions
Example: What is haven't, won't, can't, didn't,......
400
What is an opinion?
What is a feeling or thought of a person that can't be proven?
400
What are the three parts to a problem solution chart?
What is a problem, actions, and solution
400
What is an inference?
An inference is when you know something because of clues given. It's when you can guess the answer of something because of things you know and are given.
500
What was the purpose of the author's story "Gail at the Game"?
What is to persuade that girls can play baseball just as well as men?
500
Name one inference you can make about "A Year in my Life" because of clues in the story.
Example: The family will build the house themselves becuase we know Reed was cutting the logs for the new house.
500
State one fact and opinion about the story "Up in the Sky"
Example- fact: First kites were made in China
Fact: You can fish with kites
Opinion: Kids and adults like flying kites
Opinion: fishing with kites is more fun than with poles
500
What was a problem Edison had? How did he fix it?
Example: He wanted to make things better so he opened a factory and invented many things.
500
What is an ineference you can make about "the snake watcher story"?
Ex.
Clue: Ana picks up the snake's rattle
You know: If you pick up a snake's rattle you are not afraid of snakes
Inference: Ana is not afraid of snakes