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Irregular Verbs
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to move something from one place to another place
What is to replace?
100
A part of speech that describes or modifies a noun or a pronoun.
What is an adjective?
100
The past tense of the verb dig.
What is dug?
100
The repetition of the same beginning sound in a group of words.
What is alliteration?
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A question you might ask after reading this passage: "Carla sat mindlessly watching an earthworm burrow its way into the soil. Closing her eyes, she whispered, "I wish I could follow you into the cool soil and escape this dreadful work."
What is "How can I burrow in the soil?", "What does burrow mean?", "What is the earthworm doing?", etc.
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particles
What are tiny bits or pieces of something called?
200
Wind keeps temperatures cool, but can make dreadful noise and break heavy branches. These are the adjectives in the sentence.
What are cool and dreadful, and heavy
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The past tense of the verb feel.
What is felt?
200
An example of alliteration in this: A long slimy snail scooted along my garden walkway
What is slimy snail sccoted
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A question you might ask after reading this passage: "I learned that two kinds of erosion affect soil. Wind erosion blows the rich, top layer of soil away from farm fields."
What is "What is the second kind of erosion?", "How does wind blow the soil away?", "Does wind erosion happen all over the world?", etc.
300
word meaning fake, not natural, or made by human beings.
What is artificial?
300
The prefix meaning "not" plus the root word "fortunate".
What is unfortunate.
300
Find the irregular verb in the sentence: The truck screeched to a stop after the wheel broke.
What is broke?
300
In order to keep thinking about what you are reading, you would use this comprehension strategy.
What is ask questions?
300
A question you might ask after reading this passage: "Gusts blow across the gravelly ground whipping dirt into storms turbulent soil rides the wind"
What is "What does the word turbulent mean?", "How often do dust storms occur?", "How does soil ride the wind?", etc.
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the way something feels is
What is its texture?
400
The two words that mean not popular and not friendly
What are unpopular and unfriendly?
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The past tense of draw.
What is drew?
400
Fairy godmothers and talking animals are found in this genre.
What is fantasy?
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A question you might ask after reading this passage: "Now as Sam watched the dark cloud roll in, he was worried. Perhaps this cloud, or one like it, would grow into a Black Blizzard."
What is "What is a Black Blizzard?", "Are the clouds actually a Black Blizzard coming?", "What does Sam already know about Black Blizzards?", etc.
500
To move something or someone apart
What is to separate?
500
What sentence should be changed when revising: (1) He turned on the light. (2) Now, he could see his missing keys on the floor. (3) Tom walked into the garage. (4) "Man am I glad I found these!" he shouted.
What is move sentence 3 to the beginning?
500
Irregular verb in this list: played, happens, wrote, hide
What is wrote?
500
The type of writing consisting of a beginning, middle, and end.
What is a story?
500
A question you might ask after reading this passage: "All of a sudden, we heard a loud noise. Dad said it sounded like trees cracking. It made me uncomfortable because I didn't know where it came from."
What is "What is the loud noise?", "What caused the loud noise ?", "Where did the loud noise come from?", etc.