Sensory Vocabulary
A strong, pleasant smell—such as the scent of freshly baked cookies.
What is an aroma?
This story features a young girl named Nina who navigates a historical fiction setting focusing on sound and perspective.
What is The Game of Silence?
This reading skill requires finding the most important thought or takeaway of an informational text.
What is the central idea?
Fix the spelling of the homophone in this sentence: "I could here the loud music from downstairs."
What is hear?
Is this a complete sentence, a run-on, or a fragment? "The human eye catches light."
What is a complete sentence?
An object that gives off light or glows in the dark.
What is luminous?
This informational text explores how human eyes capture and process light so we can see the world.
What is The Science Behind Sight?
Small pieces of information in the text that prove or support the central idea.
What are supporting details?
Choose the correct homophone: "She looked through the glass window pane/pain."
What is pane?
Is this a complete sentence, a run-on, or a fragment? "Because of the dark room."
What is a sentence fragment?
Something experienced directly through the sense of touch.
What is tactile?
This inspiring biographical piece details how a person overcomes a major visual impairment to reach their dreams.
What is Blind Ambition?
The perspective or view from which a story is told (e.g., first-person or third-person).
What is the point of view?
Choose the correct homophone: "The blinding light made it hard to see/sea."
What is see?
Fix this run-on sentence: "We use our ears to listen music fills the room."
What is "We use our ears to listen. Music fills the room."
To enjoy or appreciate something very much.
What is to relish?
This non-fiction text details how animals use specialized senses in unique ways compared to humans.
What is Animal Senses?
Using clues around an unknown word in a sentence to figure out its definition.
What are context clues?
What suffix do you add to the base word excite to turn it into a noun meaning "the state of being excited"?
What is -ment (excitement)?
Find the proper noun that needs to be capitalized in this sentence: "My teacher taught us about animal senses on tuesday."
What is Tuesday?
How you notice, interpret, or experience things using your senses.
What is perception?
These are the two non-fiction pieces paired together in Week 2 of the module to explore different aspects of sight and perception.
What are Animal Senses and Blind Ambition?
Visual tools like graphs, charts, maps, or diagrams that give a reader extra information.
What are graphic features?
Spelling correction: change the underlined word to its correct homophone: "The dog wagged there tail."
What is its (or their depending on context)?
Identify the complete predicate in this sentence: "The brave girl navigated the obstacles safely."
What is navigated the obstacles safely?