Informational
This text feature is a visual, usually a photograph.
What is a picture?
This is where and when a story takes place.
What is a setting?
PLIP! Judy Moody woke up. Drip, drip, drip went rain on the roof. Blip, blip, blip went drops on the window. Not again! It had been raining for seven days straight. Bor-ing!
The words drip and blip are are this type of figuative language.
What is onomonapia?
This poem tells a story.
What is a narrative?
My son got burned by the sun.
The words son and sun in this sentence are.
What are homophones?
In 1917, Mrs. Baird bought a car. The family removed the seats from the back and filled the space with baked goods. They painted a sign on the side of the car that read Eat More Mrs Baird’s Bread. Delivering by car meant that even more people could enjoy Mrs. Baird’s bread.
Read this dictionary entry.
sign \ı sīn\ noun 1. a movement that shows a thought or command 2. in math, language, or music, a mark that stands for a certain idea 3. evidence that a fact or idea is true 4. a display that advertises or gives the name of a business
Which meaning of the word sign is used in paragraph 8?
What is meaning 4?
These are examples of...
explain
persuade
entertain
What is author's purpose?
She probably thought I was speechless with joy.
According to this sentence speechless means.
What is not able to speak?
This is a group of lines in a poem.
What is a stanza?
This prefix means again.
What is re-?
In 1915, Mrs. Baird purchased a used oven from a hotel. The oven cost $75, but Mrs. Baird was able to pay only $25 in cash. Luckily, she was permitted to pay the rest of the amount she owed by providing bread and rolls to the hotel.
In this passage permitted means
What is allowed?
This is a shortened version of the events in a story.
What is summery?
He found a job drawing cartoons for filmstrips, but soon he needed to earn more money because he was married and had a child. Bridwell needed a better job so that he could support his new family. He displayed his art in a special book called a portfolio and tried to find work drawing pictures for children’s books.
In this selection the word support means.
What is take care of?
tumbling in the suds,
like me
when I’m caught
in an ocean wave.
These lines mainly help the reader imagine what being inside a washing machine —
What is feels like?
This suffix means full of.
What is ful-?
This helps you understand what a certain section of the passage is about.
What is section title?
This is the most interesting part of the story.
What is high point or climax?
This is not an ordinary merry-go-round, however. It’s a PlayPump, and it’s unlike the merry-go-round you may see at a park.
A synonym for ordinary is.
What is common?
Saw my teacher on a Saturday!
I can’t believe it’s true!
I saw her buying groceries,
like normal people do!
These lines in this stanza rhyme?
What is 2 and 4?
You spell the plural of knife this way.
What is k-n-i-v-i-e-s
This text feature is located at the beginning of the book. It tells you where to find certain information.
What is table of contents?
This is the lesson of the story.
What is theme?
Conner wanted to pull Cayden himself, and Cayden wanted to be with Conner.
This is an antonym for pull.
What is push?
Saw my teacher on a Saturday!
I can’t believe it’s true!
I saw her buying groceries,
like normal people do!
This is the reason the poem has exclamation marks.
What is emphasis the speaker's surprise?
You spell the past tense of worry like this.
What is w-o-r-r-i-e-d?