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Tell me a story
The Big GW
What does (blank) mean?
Green page
Purple page
100
This is the title of a story about a cartoon artist.
What is What a Character?
100
A person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
100
People who participate in sports for fun not money are said to be this.
What is an amateur?
100
The series of events that make up a story.
What is the plot?
100
Details that tell how something looks, feels, smells, sounds, or tastes.
What are sensory details?
200
The title of the poem that compares the sea to a dog.
What is The Sea?
200
The difference between a common noun and a proper noun.
What is capitalization?
200
A beginner, someone who is learning a new skill.
What is an apprentice?
200
The pattern of rhyming sounds at the ends of lines in a poem like A-B-B-A.
What is rhyme scheme in a poem?
200
Think about what a character learns, how a character changes, consider the way in which the conflict is resolved, and pay attention to images.
What are four ways to identify a story's theme?
300
This Native American story is about a girl who thinks her traditions are unnecessary but learns a big lesson by the end of her experience.
What is Ta-Na-E-Ka?
300
This part of a sentence can stand alone and expresses a complete thought.
What is an independent clause?
300
A promise that something will be paid for or replaced if it is not satisfactory.
What is a guarantee?
300
Metaphors, imagery, hyperbole, simile, idiom.
What are forms of figurative language?
300
Educated guesses about what will happen next in a story.
What are predictions?
400
This story takes place on the Klondike during the Gold Rush.
What is The King of Mazy May?
400
Where? When? How? How often? How long? To what extent? How much?
What are questions that an adverb answers?
400
Because he was so hungry, the boy started (blank) his food.
What is gorging?
400
In this kind of story conflict, the main character struggles with an outside force.
What is an external conflict?
400
Pay attention to its title, read it silently, ready it aloud, pay attention to word choice, visualize it's images, identify figurative language, and think about how all of these elements work together to create tone and meaning.
What are steps for reading a poem?
500
This famous artist created characters such as Scooby-Doo and Muttley.
Who is Iwao Takamoto?
500
Many and anyone are two examples of this part of speech.
What are indefinite pronouns?
500
The fox was the (blank) animal in the forest.
What is shrewdest?
500
Stories that use these types of pronouns: his, her, their, he she, they and them.
What is third person narration?