A word that names a person, place, thing, or idea...
What is a noun?
100
A word that introduces a noun and can be either definite or indefinite...
What is an article?
100
The first step in the writing process that involves selecting and narrowing a topic and finding details about that topic...
What is "Pre-Writing?"
100
The part of a word that comes BEFORE and changes the meaning of the root or base word...
What is a prefix?
100
What character in the story "Quake" is the narrator?
Who is "Franny?"
200
A word that shows action or a state of being...
What is a verb?
200
A word that shows excitement, surprise, or is a command and is commonly followed by an exclamation point...
What is an interjection?
200
The second step of the writing process that results in the first or "rough" draft...
What is "Writing?"
200
A letter or a group of letters added to the end of word that changes its meaning...
What is a suffix?
200
Who is the friend visiting from Pomona, California?
Who is "Jenny?"
300
A word that takes the place of a noun as long as that noun is mentioned earlier (antecedent)...
What is a pronoun?
300
A word that modifies a noun...
What is an adjective?
300
The third step of the writing process that improves the writing by adding, deleting, or reorganizing sentences and words in the writing...
What is "Revising?"
300
A syllable is a part of a word that must have this type of letter(s) or sound...
What is a vowel or vowel combination?
300
What is the name of the "creepy little brother" in the story?
Who is Sidney?
400
A word that connects two sentences, and is preceded by a comma...
What is a conjunction?
400
A word that comes before a noun or a pronoun that forms a phrase and shows a relationship with other words in the sentence...
What is a preposition?
400
The fourth step of the writing process that fixes the mistakes in spelling and punctuation (conventions)...
What is "Editing?"
400
There are ________ letters in the English alphabet...
What is 26?
400
Which character was the first to sense the earthquake and left the house just before it happened?
Who is Lara?
500
A word that modifies a verb, adjective, or another adverb and commonly ends with the letters "ly..."
What is an adverb?
500
Names of things and places that are always capitalized...
What is a proper noun?
500
The final step of the writing process that involves sharing your writing with other readers by producing a book, magazine, article, web log, etcetera...
What is "Publication?"
500
Of all the letters in the alphabet, only one functions as both a consonant and a vowel...
What is the letter Y?
500
The name of the old man who was found injured under a Volkswagen and whose cabin slid down the hill...