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In order to be a sentence, a sentence must have this at the beginning as well as this at the end.
What is a capital letter and a punctuation mark?
100
What did Fudge do when Peter's dad's boss gave Peter a picture dictionary?
What is Fudge pulled out the same dictionary that Peter already had and showed it to everyone?
100
Good writers often leave clues as to what will come next, such as: "Little did Winnie know how her life was about to change through meeting the Tucks."
What is foreshadowing?
100
In "Toto," the author says the lion looked haughty. What does this mean?
What is full of pride; cocky; proud; large and in charge.
100
This part of speech shows action.
What is an action verb?
200
This punctuation shows ownership, and sometimes is used to make contractions.
What is an apostrophe?
200
In "Peter and the Starcatchers," why did Peter decide to stay on the island?
What is, because he could live forever and would feel weird out in the regular world, and he did not have a home or family.
200
A story that moves too fast through the action, or maybe too slow is said to have poor ________.
What is pacing?
200
In "Mrs. Frisby and The Crow," when Mrs. Frisby rode on the crow's back, he flew up and then "banked alarmingly." In this context, what does the work "banked" mean?
What is tilt to one side while flying?
200
This part of speech describes nouns.
What is an adjective?
300
Properly punctuate and capitalize this sentence: bill said I wont go with you bob ann and tom to the park
What is "Bill said, "I won't go with you, Bob, And and Tom to the park."
300
What did the main character and Valerie's grandfather share a love for that helped them build a relationship?
What is birds?
300
Each time a writer starts a new subject, or moves to a new scene, the reader can tell this by how the writer organizes his or her writing into ____________.
What is a paragraph?
300
Use this word correctly in a sentence: watershed
What is ?????
300
This is a special verb that does not show action, but instead "connects" a noun with an adjective.
What is a linking verb?
400
Properly edit this passage: Jane didnt like ice cream so when the mayfield ice cream truck came she didnt go out, instead she stayed in and read her book before she made her bed cleaned her closet and took a nap
What is Jane didn't like ice cream, so when the Mayfield Ice Cream truck came, she didn't go out. Instead, she stayed in and read her book before she made her bed, cleaned her closet, and took a nap.
400
Describe the main character, Shade. (We all know he was a bat!!! Stick to personal qualities in your description.}
What is a runt, brave, curious, smart, loyal
400
Pieces of writing often have a certain feel to them: a scary stories often have short sentences to convey suspense, or fun stories may have nonsensical words. This is called the _____ of the story.
What is tone?
400
In ship terms, what is a knot?
What is a method of measuring speed on a ship, using a log tied to a rope that has knots at regular intervals so that sailors could count how many knots slip through their hands in a certain amount of time.
400
This part of speech describes or modifies a verb.
What is an adverb?
500
Fix this sentence: Her mother tell tammy that her costume aint ready yet
What is Her mother tells Tammy that her costume isn't ready yet.
500
At the beginning of the book, what did Winnie want most of all, and did she get it?
What is to see what was beyond the fence?
500
Sometimes a writer does not exactly tell the reader what is happening. Instead, they use this writing device so that the reader can figure it out on their own. This is called ________.
What is inferring or inference.
500
Use these three words correctly in the same sentence: gondola, ducat, merchant.
What is ?????
500
Fix the grammatical errors in this sentence: We doesn't like when when our rices are cook two longly.
What is We don't like it when our rice is cooked too long.