HIGH-FREQUENCY WORDS
HOMOPHONES
PERSONAL NARRATIVES
GOLD — ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY
WHICH MOTIVATION IS IT? GLORY & GOD — COMPETITION & EXPANSION
100

The opposite of up

What is down?

 

100

This means “to listen with your ears.” 

What is hear?

100

The personal narrative tells about something that happened to whom.


What is the writer/narrator?

100

Economic opportunity.

What is a chance to gain wealth, resources, or trade?

100

European countries competed with one another for land and power.

What is Glory — competition?

200

This word completes the sentence.

“I ___ my name on my paper.”

What is write?

200

This means “this location”? 

What is here?

200

The point of view that often uses the words I, me, my, and we.


What is first person?

200

Europeans explored new lands because they wanted to find valuable ______.

What are resources and wealth?

200

Competition means this in the context of European exploration.

What is countries competing for land, power, and control?

300

This means “humans” or “persons”

What are people?

300

Choose the correct word:

“The king's ___ lasted for 20 years.”

What is reign?

300

A personal narrative tells about a real experience from someone's ______.

What is life?

300

The motivation where an explorer travels to find gold and other valuable resources.

What is Gold or Economic Opportunity?

300

European countries wanted to claim more land and increase their territory.

What is God — expansion?

400

This word completes the sentence. 

“I know ___ answer is correct.”

What is their?

400

This word means “correct”?

What is right?

400

A detail that would BEST help a reader understand how a narrator felt.

A. “The room had four windows.”
B. “My hands shook as I walked onto the stage.”
C. “The clock was on the wall.”

What is “My hands shook as I walked onto the stage.”

400

This is an example of an economic opportunity.

A. Finding new sources of wealth
B. Competing with another country
C. Spreading a religion


What is finding new sources of wealth?

400

“Spain wanted to increase its territory and control more land.”

What is God — Expansion?

500

Complete the sentence:

“The scientist studied the ___ of the experiment.”  

What is number?

500

Fill in the blanks:

___ going to put ___ books over ___.”

What is They're, their, there?

500

The writer says, “My heart raced, and I could hear my shoes pounding against the floor.” What does this evidence MOST likely show about the narrator?


What is the narrator was nervous or excited?

500

Which motivation: An explorer tells the king, “This land may have valuable resources that we can trade and use.”

What is Gold — economic opportunity?

500

An explorer says, “Our country needs to claim this land before another European country does. We need to increase our power and territory.”

Beware: This has two motivations. 

What are Glory — Competition AND God — Expansion?