Grammar Jammar
Word Categories
Open Response Questions
Genres
Leftovers
100
This is a person, place and thing.
What is a Noun?
100
This type of word is made when two words are joined to form a new word like backpack and sandbox.
What is a compound word?
100
This is what the Acronym FUN stands for
Find Underline Number
100
This is a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage.
What is a Drama or a Play?
100
This type of writing contains true facts, & tells about real people, places, objects, etc.
What is non-fiction?
200
This type of word can express action.
What is a verb?
200
These are words that mean the same thing like small and tiny.
What is a synonym?
200
What do the four legs of a table represent in an open response question?
Details or examples to support your main idea
200
This is a story that is usually passed down orally and becomes part of a community's tradition
What is a Folktale?
200
This is a general name for a person, place, thing, or idea: dog, island, boy, peace...
What is a common noun?
300
This type of word modifies a noun or pronoun. In this case, "modifies" means "tells more about." These are words that describe things.
What is an adjective?
300
These are words with opposite meanings like beginning and end.
What is an antonym?
300
How would you turn this question around to include it into your answer Why are Joanna Cole's books successful?
Joanna Cole's books are successful because...
300
This is a short story (often with animal characters) with a moral.
What is a Fable?
300
This is a SPECIFIC person, place, thing, or idea: Mary, McDonalds, Nantucket.....
What is proper noun?
400
This type of word is used in place of a noun or nouns. Common examples of this type of word include he, her, him, I, it, me, she, them, they, us, and we.
What is pronoun?
400
These words sound exactly alike, but have different spellings and meanings like there and their.
What is homophones?
400
How could you turn this question around to include it in your answer? Why is George Washington Carver famous?
George Washington Carver is famous because...
400
This is a traditional story about gods, ancestors, or heroes, told to explain the natural world or the customs and beliefs of a society.
What is a myth?
400
Covering up the answers and trying to figure out the answer before looking at the options is one of the strategies that we have learned for answering what type of question? A) open response B) short answer C) multiple choice D) none of the above
C) Multiple Choice
500
This type of word modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb. In this case, "modifies" means "tells more about." This type of word tells more about how the verb is being done and often end in "-ly."
What is an adverb?
500
This word is two words combined with an apostrophe such as can't, wouldn't, I'd, won't. When writing this type of word the main word usually doesn't change except in the following words: will not becoming won't and cannot becoming can't.
What is contraction?
500
Why is it important to read the italics at the beginning of the text?
They usually have important information about the text which could help you answer the questions.
500
This is a story of a person's life written by another person.
What is Biography?
500
This is what the lines spoken by characters in drama or fiction are called.
What is dialogue?