Nouns
Verbs
Adverbs
Adjectives
Reading Strategies
100

What is a noun?

a person, place, or thing

100

What is a verb?

an action word

100

What does an adverb do?

Describes or modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverb
100

What does an adjective do?

describes or modifies a noun

100

What is summarizing?

Putting the ideas in a story into our own words

200

Sarah sat quietly and read her book.

What is the Proper noun?

Sarah

200

The fast dog ran quickly across the yard.

What is the verb?

ran

200

The dog slowly crept up on the sleeping cat.

What is the adverb?

slowly

200

The beautiful girl danced on stage all night.

What is the adjective?

beautiful

200

What is cause and effect?

Cause and Effect is what happened and why it happened.

300

Timmy goes to school everyday.

What is the common noun?

school

300

Michael waited quietly for his food to arrive.

What is the verb?

waited

300

The magnet was stuck on the outside of my purse.

What is the adverb in this sentence?

outside

300

The purple frog jumped over the blueberry muffin and quickly hopped onto the pink rock.

Which adjective modifies muffin?

blueberry

300

What is predicting?

Using what you have already read to guess what will happen in the future

400

The puppy ran over to the young girl and stole the apple.

How many nouns are on this sentence?

3

400
Ms. Rudolph planned for us to take our spelling test today.

How many verbs are in this sentence?

2

400

The students carefully walked down the slippery sidewalk.

What is the adverb in this sentence?

carefully

400

The old spinach gave the kitchen a rotten smell.

Which adjective describes the word smell?

rotten

400

What is sequencing?

Listing events that happened in order

500

How can you tell the difference between a common noun and a proper noun?

Proper nouns have a capital Letter and name a specific person, place, or thing

500

Which one of these words is not a verb?

walked, ran, followed, purple, rode

purple

500

Which one of these is not an adverb?

quickly, happily, beautifully, loud, completely

loud

500

The purple, green, and orange pumpkin was very large.

How many adjectives are used to describe the pumpkin?

4

500

What are facts and opinions?

a fact is something that can be proven and an opinion is something that is believed