Reading Techniques
The _____ is when and where the story takes place
What is setting?
What word is a synonym of finish?
What is done?
Look at the subject in italics. Is it singular or plural?
The teachers order books and games online.
What is Plural?
These are words that sound the same at the end.
This is the person who tells the story. Who is the ___?
Who is the narrator?
The ____ is the events that happen in a story, or what the characters do.
What is Plot?
What is the base word in returnable?
What is Return?
Select the possessive pronoun.
The girls met their new doctor.
What is their?
A word made up of two smaller words, like cupcake, is called a _____.
What is a compound word?
The lesson or message the author wants you to learn from the story is the ___.
What is theme?
The _________ is the key point that the author is trying to make. It is the idea you learn from all the parts of the text together.
What is the prefix in restarted?
What is RE?
Select the one preposition.
My aunt wrapped her arms around me.
What is around?
Which punctuation mark shows a character's exact spoken words in a story?
When you use clues in the text to figure out something that is not stated directly, you are making an ___.
What is inference?
Read the sentences.
"Let's go," Lola said. "I can't wait a second longer!"
Based on these sentences, how is Lola probably feeling?
What is excited?
Complete the pattern.
break : breakable
repair :
What is Repairable?
Select the adverb that tells about the verb in bold.
The American flag waved high above the building.
What is above?
A clue in the text that helps you figure out an unknown word is called a _____ clue.
When the narrator tells the story using “I,” that point of view is called ___.
What is 1st person?
Look at these details from a paragraph about corn.
It takes a lot of space for corn to grow well.
A lot of water is needed to grow large ears of corn.
Corn must get enough sunlight to grow tall.
Choose the main, or central, idea that ties all the details together.
What is Corn needs several things to grow well?
What does hard mean in this sentence?
I fell off the swing and landed on the hard ground.
What is hard, adjective, not soft?
Select the subordinating conjunction.
Waylinn was surprised because her mom was home early from work.
What is Because?
What does the prefix "un-" usually mean when added to a word like "happy"?
What is Not?
A picture that shows a character’s emotion helps create the ___. What do we call the feeling the reader gets from the story?
What is mood?