Poetic Devices
MCA Strategies
Texts
Question Types
Ms. Koerner
100
The blue fox blew past five fields of brown fairness
What is Alliteration?
100
Trying to determine what the right answer will be, before you look at the answers.
What is predicting the answer?
100
A small river.
What is a rivulet?
100
What was the article "One Cool Job" mostly about?
What is Central Idea?
100
The place where Ms. Koerner likes to exercise.
What is Curves?
200
The chair groaned as I sat down. The lightning danced in the sky.
What is Personification?
200
Breaking the text into parts and labeling what each piece does or is about.
What is chunking the text?
200
What was the tester's spoon made out of in "One Cool Job."
What is gold?
200
What word means the same thing as "outrageous?"
What is Vocab?
200
The bone Ms. Koerner broke in December.
What is the femur?
300
Mr. Barry paints like he was one of those old Italian guys...you know, the good ones.
What are similies?
300
Determining WHY the author wrote the text.
What is the Author's Purpose?
300
The kind of dogs that rescued people in the Alps in "Good to the Bone."
What are St. Bernards?
300
How does the author of "Kids Can!" seem to feel about the difference young people can make in the world?
What is Inference?
300
The name of Ms. Koerner's first long-term sub.
Who is Ms. Miller?
400
Boom! Pow! Tick tock.
What is onompapia?
400
A strategy that helps you be sure you answered a detail question correctly.
What is going back and finding the answer in the text?
400
The theme for "Tangled Lines" (Alan and his father are out fishing)
What is "Talk out your problems," "Make sure you understand what the other person is saying,"...
400
What happened right after Alan's father cut the fishing lines in "Tangled Lines?"
What is Detail?
400
The name of Ms. Koerner's second long term sub.
Who is Ms. Maveus?
500
I was a tiger on the court yesterday!
What is a metaphor?
500
If you know what kind of question it is, it will help you understand what to do.
What is question types?
500
The topic of "Now Hear This" & "I Learned the Hard Rock Way.
What is hearing loss?
500
Which line from the "On the Bus" helps us understand what the story is mostly about? (2 types here!)
What are detail and central idea?
500
The names of Ms. Koerner's children.
What are Lucas and Elias?