Reading
Word Variation
Vocabulary
Story
Setting
100

This person earned her name by sleeping by the hearth.

What is Cinderella?

100

This is the root word to the adjective "angelic".

What is angel?

100

The definition for this word is "a cry of sorrow".

What is lament?

100

This word means how a story moves through a series of events.

What is plot?

100
Name 3 parts to setting.

What are setting, time, and place?

200

This story featured a witch with cannibalistic intentions.

What is Hansel and Gretel?

200

This is a noun phrase using the adjective "majestic".

What is "the majestic unicorn"? (answers will vary)

200

The definition for transparent.

What is clear or opaque?

200

This word means "a repetition of sounds at the beginning of words".

What is alliteration?
200

The prefix "micro" and "macro" mean this.

What is small and big?

300

This character lives on another planet where it rains for 7 years.

Who is Margot?

300

Identify the part of speech in this sentence, "The boys locked Margot in a closet."

What is a verb?

300

This word means to attract or lure.

What is entice?

300

Name all 5 parts to the basic plot line.

What is exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution?

300

A story takes place during the Harlem Renaissance - a specific concept of time.

What is macro time?

400

This character made the decision to sell Zlateh.

Who is Reuven?

400

Name at least 4 parts of speech.

Noun, Adjective, Verb, Adverb, Conjunction, Preposition, Pronoun, Interjection
400

"Ex-" is a pre-fix meaning this.

What is out?

400

Name 4 characteristics of a fable.

What is short story, fiction, anthropomorphized animals, humorous, tells a moral/lesson?

400

A specific scene takes place in a cave.

What is place?

500

This culture celebrates Hanukkah.

What is Jewish?

500

Create a 4-word tongue twister.

(answers will vary) Students demonstrate knowledge of letter pairings.

500

This word means "drying out, decaying, or decomposing"

What is wither?

500

This word means to take notes on.

What is annotation?

500

A story takes place in an isolated, small town.

What is setting?