Syllable type with two vowels, such as ae, ee, ai or oy
What is a vowel team or double vowel?
100
The people or animals a story is about
What are characters?
100
A feature authors use to tell us certain words are important or new vocabulary
What is bold text?
100
Silly Sammy sold sour sandwiches is an example of what?
What is alliteration?
100
Spell the color that rhymes with "shoe"
What is blue?
200
The chicken letter, or letter that needs a friend
What is q(u)?
200
What happens in a story
Hint:
Someone
Wanted
But
So
Then
What is plot?
200
Words that appear under a picture or photograph
What is a caption?
200
My brother is a tornado.
What is metaphor?
200
Spell the word that means: to toss balls in the air and catch them over and over
What is juggle?
300
Syllable type where the vowel "falls off the cliff"
What is an open syllable?
300
What goes wrong in the story and how the characters fix it
Answer is 2 words
What are problem and solution?
300
What a non-fiction story or paragraph is mostly about
What is main idea?
300
The type of poem where you sketch a picture and either fill it in with words, or write words around the outline
What is a shape poem or concrete poetry?
300
Spell the word that Mrs. B says "Everyone can read but no one can spell"
What is special?
400
Two words that are pronounced the same way, but have different meanings
such as: bear and bare
What are homophones?
400
When you use your schema and what happens in a story to figure out why something happens or why a character does something
What is inference?
400
Authors tell you about a topic with the help of these two things: their feelings or thoughts, and information that can be proven
Example:
Snakes are the coolest reptile on the planet.
Snakes do not have legs.
What are fact and opinion?
400
The special descriptions that use the 5 senses to paint a picture
What are sensory details?
400
Spell the word that means: A person who flies into space to learn
What is astronaut?
500
Name all six syllable types we have learned this year.
What are open, closed, magic e, r-controlled, vowel team, and consonant-le.
500
Name 3 Ways to Read a Story
What are read the words, read the pictures, and retell the story.
500
The text feature that appears at the back of the book, lists topics in alphabetical order and the page you can find it on
What is an index?
500
The author of the poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
Who is Robert Frost?
500
Spell the word that belongs in this sentence:
The glass is clear. You could see right ________ it.