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Vocabulary
Word Study
Comprehension
Writing
Potpourri
100
There was a large _______________at the concert last night, and they applauded loudly.
What is audience?
100
The word that has the same consonant blend as "place"; poles, please, present
What is please?
100
A main idea that is repeated throughout a fiction story is called this.
What is a theme?
100
Ideas, (clear message) Organization, (an order that makes sense) Voice, (writer's personality) Sentence fluency, (sounds good when read aloud) Conventions, (spelling, punctuation, capitalization, usage) and Presentation (neat and interesting) are called this.
What are the TRAITS of good writing
100
something that will last forever or for a very long time
What is permanent?
200
nationality
What is the country where a person was born or lives now?
200
The word that ends with the same sound as top; tap, tip, mop
What is mop?
200
When you read non fiction and you stop to determine if a detail is important or just interesting, you are really figuring out this major part of the passage.
What is main idea?
200
Characters, Setting, Plot (problem/goal, events, and solution/resolution) ate the elements of this form of writing
What is a story
200
origin
What is a starting point or place?
300
belief
What is something that you feel is true?
300
The list that contains words that are all in the same word family; a. mop, map, cap b. snap, map, cap c. cop, mop, cap
What is list b?
300
What the poem "Celebrating Our Roots;American Suitcase" is mostly about.
What is that American culture is made up of the cultures of many different countries.
300
The child __________because he lost his favorite toy. The verb that agrees with the subject: cry, crying, cries
What is cries?
300
food, water, shelter
What are necessities?
400
an imaginary line separating two countries, states or cities
What is a border?
400
Three words in the same word family as sun.
What is fun, bun, run ....?
400
When you decide what the main ideas of a passage are you are using this important reading strategy.
What is determine importance?
400
Every afternoon, they hurry down to the station to meet their mother. She __________ home from work. The correct subject/verb agreement- hurry or hurries
What is hurries?
400
The word that has the same consonant blend as "street"; sat, stack, choose
What is stack?
500
When you go somewhere with someone you ________ them.
What is accompany?
500
Three words with the same consonant blend as lost.
What is last, past, list....?
500
Read this passage from "The World on Your Plate:" Many of our foods like pasta, pancakes or bagels, are made from wheat. Another very important grain is rice. In much of the world, people eat rice every day. Chinese immigrants helped make rice dishes popular in the United States. One of the best known Chinese dishes is fried rice. Rice goes well with lots of food, from meats to vegetables. This is most important sentence or main idea of the paragraph.
What is "Another very important grain is rice. In much of the world, people eat rice every day. "
500
The rabbit escaped the farmer. He went under the fence. He went through the cornfield. The best way to revise these sentences; 1. The rabbit escaped the farmer, he went under the fence, he went through the cornfield. 2.Under the fence then through the cornfield, the rabbit escaped the farmer.
What is 2?
500
Of the following, the one that is a trait of good writing: misspell words, make the sentences all sound the same, using uninteresting characters, write in an organized way
What is write in an organized way?