Vocabulary
What is a "nickname"?
The abbreviation for August.
What is Aug.?
The part of speech for the word grandma.
Grandma drove us to school yesterday.
What is a noun?
The author's purpose for writing Red, White, and Blue.
What is to inform?
A synonym for the word small.
What is little or tiny?
The American flag has 50 of these. They represent the states.
What are stars?
The abbreviation you use when addressing a man.
What is Mr.?
The part of speech for the word waves.
The American flag waves in the breeze above the trees.
What is a verb or action predicate?
The author wrote that the story of the first American flag is a good one. Is this statement a fact or opinion?
What is an opinion?
An antonym for the word false.
What is true?
The American flag has 13 of these. They represent the 13 original colonies.
What are stripes?
The meaning of the prefix in-, for example invisible, indirect, inappropriate.
What is "not"?
The part of speech for the word quietly.
The students walked quietly in the hall.
What is an adverb?
The thirteen colonies originally belonged to England.
Is this a fact or an opinion?
What is a fact?
The three reasons why an author writes a selection.
What are to persuade, inform, and entertain?
The condition of not being under someone's control. Our flag reminds us of this.
What is freedom?
The meaning of the suffix -less, for example friendless and tireless.
What is without or not affected by?
Add the quotation marks to the sentence.
Jim said, We should have a parade.
Jim said, "We should have a parade."
A synonym for the central idea.
What is the main idea?
The genre for the story Just Like Josh Gibson
What is realistic fiction?
The freedom to make your own decisions. Americans won this from Great Britain.
What is independence?
The meaning of the prefix mid-, for example midway, midyear, and midweek.
What is "the middle of"?
Add quotation marks to the sentence.
Our flag has many nicknames, replied Martha.
"Our flag has many nicknames," replied Martha.
What is the author's purpose for Just Like Josh Gibson?
What is to entertain and to inform?
The central idea for the story Charlotte's Web.
What is Charlotte, Wilbur, and Fern are all friends that help each other?