Reading Skills
When you use the other words in a text to help you figure out the meaning of an unknown or unfamiliar word.
What are context clues?
A set of grouped lines in a poem.
What is a stanza?
The people or animals a story is about.
What are characters?
True or False - Comparative adjectives compare two things.
What is True?
The correct spelling of the word big when -er is added.
A. biger B. bigger C. bigher
What is B. bigger?
In the story, The Kappa and and the Farmer, the author describes a kappa as:
A. a friendly dog that lives at home with the family
B. a made-up creature that lives in the water
C. a bird that can make wishes come true
What is B. a made-up creature that lives in the water?
The number of lines in the following poem:
How doth the little crocodile
Improve his shining tail,
And pour the waters of the Nile
On every golden scale!
How cheerfully he seems to grin,
How neatly spreads his claws,
And welcomes little fishes in,
With gently smiling jaws!
What is eight?
Punctuation mark used to show a possessive noun.
What is an apostrophe?
The baby elephant is ______ than its mother. Choose the comparative adjective that completes this sentence:
A. small B. smaller C. smallest
What is B. smaller?
The superlative form of the word funny.
A. funniest B. funnier C. funnyest
What is A. funniest?
Excerpt from Pasta for Astronar: "What was that?" Kyle and his little brother, Trent, ran to the window and peered into the night. From the woods in the backyard cam a pale green glow that cast eerie shadows across the lawn.
How the characters feel during this part of the story.
What is scared, afraid, frightened, worried?
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
This poem is an example of: A. alliteration B. personification C. rhyming
What is A. alliteration?
Two or more words that start with the same sound and are close together. Usually used in poems and riddles.
What is alliteration?
Choose the singular possessive noun in the following sentence:
The dog's collar was blue.
What is dog's?
Which sentence contains a compound word?
A. The plane soared above the purple clouds.
B. The train traveled far along the forgotten tracks.
C. The sailboat coasted along the shore.
What is C. sailboat?
True or False. In realistic fiction the main character has a real-life problem.
What is true?
The rhyming pattern in the following stanza:
Roses are red,
violets are blue
Candy is sweet,
and so are you!
A. AABB B. ABCB C. ABCD
What is B. ABCB
How the words and illustrations in a story make the reader feel.
What is mood?
The superlative form of the word tiny.
What is tiniest?
Spell the word fox as a singular possessive noun.
What is fox's?
In the story, A Fish Named Dog, the main character does this with her pet.
What is spend time teaching it to do tricks?
The fourth word in the second stanza:
I never saw a purple cow,
I never hope to see one,
But I can tell you, anyhow,
I’d rather see than be one!
What is tell?
Adjectives that compare three or more things.
What are superaltive adjectives?
The three ___________ leaves are green
Choose the correct plural possessive noun to complete the sentence above:
A. bush's B. bushes' C. bushe's
What is B. bushes'?
Choose the correct plural possessive form of the word beach:
A. beaches B. beach's C. beaches'
What is C. beaches'?