General Trivia
Grammar
Maple Creek Trivia
Sentences & Paragraphs
Reading Strategies
100

Capital city of Canada.

What is Ottawa?

100
Noun that always has a capital letter.

What is Proper Noun?

100
The number of divisions this year at Maple Creek.

What is 24?

100
The sentence that has one subject and one predicate - basic.

What is a simple sentence?

100
You can relate to something in text, could be to yourself, another book or in the world.

What is a Connection?

200

The meaning of www

What is World Wide Web?

200

This parts of speech describes nouns and appeals to one of your five senses.

What is an adjective?

200
The name of our Youth Worker.

What is Debby Murrillo?

200
The final sentence in a paragraph that restates the topic and three main ideas, yet in different words.

What is a concluding sentence?

200

The name of a reading strategy where you use your five senses to help you create pictures in your mind. 

What is visualization?

300

The year the first Air Jordan sneakers were released.

What is 1984?

300

This is an example of this parts of speech - Wow!

What is an Interjection?

300

The last names of four Grade 8 English teachers.

Who could be Asher, Lynch, Kwok, Chan, Sue-a-Quan, Dedes?

300

When using the 5Ws to write a sentence, you create this type of sentence.  

What is a complex sentence?

300

When the answer to this question can not be found in the text.

What is a Thick Question?

400

The hottest and brightest planet

What is Venus?

400

This part of speech joins two sentences in a compound sentence.

What is a conjunction?

400

The year Maple Creek became a middle school.  Hint - it is in the 1990s.

What is 1997?

400

These words help transition main ideas in a paragraph.

What are connecting words?

400
When you look at the title of a book, cover of the book and make a statement about what you think the book will be about. 

What is a Prediction?

500

Most popular colour for human eyes.

What is brown?

500

The boy quickly ran after the bus.  Quickly is an example of this parts of speech.

What is an adverb?

500

The names of our two secretaries in the office...their last names.

What is Mrs. Lorenz and Mrs. Santos?

500

These are used in compound sentences and complex sentences and join parts of a sentence together.          Examples:  although, because,...

What is a conjunction?

500

Many people call this reading strategy "reading between the lines".  You use information from the story to answer a question.

What is an Inference?  or Inferring?