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Fact or opinion: Baseball is the best summer sport.
opinion
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Name 4 purposes for writing.
persuade inform entertain (or express feelings)
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What is the main idea of this passage: When a whale calf is hungry, it bumps its mother. She squirts milk into the calf's mouth. It drdinks many gallons of milk in a short time. The milk is so rich that a calf can gain eight pounds in one hour. A baby whale needs its mother's milk to grow.
Baby whale calves drink a lot of milk to grow.
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The very best food in the world is ice cream. It is cold and sweet. I like to lick it as it drips down the cone. I like all of the different flavors. Is this passage based on fact or opinion?
opinion
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What is summarizing?
Telling what you have read in your own words
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Maria and Carlos have an unusual job. Every day, they go to the city park. Maria plays music on her banjo while Carlos dances. People gather around to watch. After his dance, Carlos holds out his hat. People drop money into the hat. What is the setting?
the city park
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What are text features?
Features that make it easier to understand what you are reading (example: pictures, graphs, bold print)
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What is the suffix of "opposition?"
ition
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What is a main idea?
What the passage is mainly about
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What does inference mean?
Using the text and your own knowledge to figure something out
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What is the subject of this sentence? Blake has a box of paint.
Blake
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What is the verb in this sentence Kids love to swim at the pool and the beach.
love
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Baseball is a fun sport to play or watch. What is the subject?
baseball
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What is the complete predicate in the sentence: Andy raked the dry, brown leaves into big piles.
raked the dry, brown leaves into big piles.
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What is the complete predicate in the sentence? Dad carried the barrel into the back yard.
carried the barrel into the back yard.
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What are supporting details?
facts that prove the main idea
400
synonym for sequence
chronological
400
What is prose?
a form of writing that tells a story Anything that is not a poem or drama
400
A plot has a rising action. What is the rising action?
The events that happen before the climax
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what is the climax of a story?
*the event in the story where a problem is almost resolved or is resolved. *the exciting part
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What is the solution in a story?
The place in a story where the problem is solved.
500
What is the resolution in a story?
The end of the story
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How can you tell if the nonfiction text you are reading is organized as a compare/contrast?
The text will tell how two things are alike and how the two things are different.
500
What do we call something that cannot be proven? example: Mrs. Bohannon is the cutest teacher at Southern.
an opinion
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What is another name for "reading between the lines?"
inference