Survival Guide
A Movie in My Pillow
A Movie in My Pillow B
A Movie in My Pillow C
From Scratch
100
Synonym for the word traveler.
What is nomadic?
100
To use your senses to create pictures in your mind as you read.
What is to visualize?
100
The main message, lesson, or moral of the text.
What is theme?
100
The language and techniques a writer uses to make his or hers writing more interesting and to communicate ideas to the reader.
What is the author's craft?
100
Clothing that is not dressy and is meant for everyday use.
What is casual?
200
The purpose of a problem and solution informational text.
What is to show a problem and how it is solved?
200
Which vocabulary word is represented?
What is fortunate?
200
The author's reason for writing.
What is the author's purpose?
200
The emotions and feelings of the reader while reading a text.
What is mood?
200
A smart guess that readers make, based on clues in the text and what they already know.
What is inference?
300
Words that sound the same, but are spelled differently and have different meanings.
What are homophones?
300
This vocabulary word is represented.
What is relatives?
300
This homophone means an expression of sorrow.
morning, mourning
What is m-o-u-r-n-i-n-g?
300
My toe has swelled to the size of the house is an example of this technique.
What is a hyperbole?
300
A word that has more than one meaning and pronunciation.
What is a homograph?
400
Choose the correct homophone.
My mom asked the waiter to return the (mussels, muscles) back to the kitchen because it had a horrible smell.
What are m-u-s-s-e-l-s?
400
These two prefixes mean one.
What is mono- and uni-?
400
The author's feeling's toward a subject.
What is tone?
400
Definition of unreluctantly.
What is not willing?
500
The definition of yearning.
What is to want something very much , and feel sad when you do not receive it.
500
This vocabulary word is represented.
What is discarded?
500
The same word or sound that appears over and over to show something is important or to add rhythm.
What is repetition?
500
A short, funny, or interesting story related to a character .
What is an anecdote?