Decoding
Vocabulary
Characterization
Active Reading Strategies
Sherlock Holmes
100

What is the acronym for the six syllable types?

CLOVER

100

What is a pedestrian?

A person walking along a road

100

What is direct characterization?

When the author tells you about a character directly.

100

When you make a picture or movie in your mind, which strategy are you using?

Visualize

100

What is Sherlock Holmes's job?

Detective

200

Which syllable types can make a long vowel sound?

(There are 3)

Silent e, open, and vowel team

200

What part of the word glumly tells us that it is an adverb?

the suffix -ly

200

What does the E in STEAL stand for?

Effect on Others

200

What are the 3 types of text connections?

Text to self, text to text, text to world

200

Who is Sherlock Holmes's partner?

Dr. John Watson

300

How many syllables are in the word...

strategy

3

strat - e -gy

300

Which word means partner-in-crime?

accomplice

300

What is the character trait?

Lily's backpack always had crumbs and crumpled paper in the bottom, and she left her clothes on the floor.

Messy or disorganized

300

Kayla decided she did not agree with the news article.

Which active reading strategy is this?

Evaluate

300

Name 2 technologies we have today that were NOT present in London in the 1890s.

Computers, cell phones, cars, etc.

400

Which letters can make a schwa sound?

All the vowels 

a, e, i, o, u, and y

400

Describe an eccentric outfit.

(Anything unusual or strange)

400

Turn this into indirect characterization:

Andrew is a bully.

(Any answer that shows Andrew being a bully)

400

Sean wrote down what he thought would happen next. 

Which active reading strategy is this?

Predict

400

Who did Violet Hunter look like after she cut her hair?

Alice Rucastle