Topics of Summer School
Vocabulary
Name that Book
Types of Stories
Could be Anything
100

What is the word that has the most important idea about a topic; "The Big Idea"

The Main Idea

100

To protect someone or something; to speak up in support of something.

Defend

100

The sharpener is the villain.

Little Red Writing

100

Once Upon a Time

A Fairytale

100

When a sentence ends in a . ! ?  What are those 3 things called?

Punctuation Marks

200

Give the meaning of the word prediction.

A guess or something you think will happen.

200

What is the meaning of the word engrave?

To cut words or designs into a surface.

200

Pedro wins the election to be President.

Long Shot

200

A type of writing that is written about something and is all facts.

Informational Writing.

200

The lesson the author is teaching us.

Central Message

300

A word that describes when someone is speaking in a passage/story.

Dialogue

300

What word means to search or get information about a question.

Investigate

300

He helped with freeing the people of South Africa.

Nelson Mandela

300

When you write about something that is how you feel.

An Opinion Writing

300

Where we go at 9:30?

Recess

400

What word means the moral, message, or lesson in the story.

Theme

400

Define the word spectator.

Someone who watches an event.

400

Queen realized her imagination could take her to Africa.

The Broken Bike Boy and the Queen of 33rd Street

400

A written paper telling how two different things are alike and are similar.

Compare and Contrast.  (Venn Diagram)

400

Another name for soccer.

Futball

500

What word describes what the author has not stated, but you know what they are talking about even though it was not stated.

Inference

500

What word means to separate and go off in different positions.

Scatter

500

The Hercules Beetle is the strongest animal in the World.

How Strong is It?

500

The last paragraph of a story or written paper.

Conclusion

500

________ is Power

Knowledge