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3 synonyms for the word happy.
What are glad, joyful, and content (or similar)?
Words that describe nouns are called this.
What is an adjective?
Hints that the author gives to help define a difficult or unusual word in the text.
What are con"Text" clues?
Two words that rhyme with play.
What are: pray, pay, tray, okay and may (or similar)?
The time and the place of the story.
What is the setting?
The kind of punctuation you use when you are saying something exciting.
What is an exclamation point?
Two words that rhyme with mice.
What are rice, ice, nice, spice (or similar)?
An antonym for the word dry.
What is wet (or similar)?
The message that is in the story or what the story is about.
What is the theme?
What words adjectives describe.
What are nouns?
The kind of nouns that are always capitalized.
What are proper nouns (people's names, place names, very important things)?
A word used instead of a noun, to avoid repeating the noun. (Ex: I, you, he, etc.)
What is a pronoun?
The genre with magic.
What is fantasy?
The genre written to entertain that is not true.
What is fiction?
What you should always start your sentences with.
What is a capital letter?
The plural form of the word child.
What is children?
Words that show action.
What are verbs?
The prefix of the word: unkind.
What is the prefix: un?
The genre for written work that is true.
What is nonfiction?
The plural of puppy.
What is puppies?
Peter walked quickly down the dark street. It was quiet. Suddenly, a dog howled. Peter walked even faster after that. Cause: A dog howled. The effect is: a. Peter went inside. b. Peter walked even faster. c. Everything was quiet.
What is: b. Peter walked even faster?
A word which usually describes a verb. It tells you how something is done. It may also tell you when or where something happened. Noun, Adjective, Verb, or Adverb?
What is an adverb?
Kitty and her friend decided to take a trip. "We'll go to the beach," said Kitty. "The beach is nice in the autumn. It's cool, so there won't be many people there. It won't be crowded at all." Cause: The weather is cool. The Effect is: a. There won't be many people at the beach. b. Kitty will take a long trip. c. The beach will be very crowded.
What is: a. There won't be many people at the beach?
There are about 2,000 kinds of bats. They come in many sizes. bats are rather strange looking animals. They are soft and furry with large ears. Bats can not run or walk. They usually eat insects. Bats are the only mammals that fly. The main idea is: a. Bats are unusual mammals. b. Bats move by running and flying. c. Bats look like many other animals.
What is: a. Bats are unusual mammals?
The crop that gives the most food to humans and animals in the United States is corn. Most of the corn grown is for use as animal feed. The farmers of the United States produce about one half of all the corn grown in the world. The main idea is: a. Corn is grown as feed for humans and animals. b. Corn is grown all over the world. c. Corn is important as it is used for many things.
What is: a. Corn is grown as feed for humans and animals?