Point of View
Topic/Theme
Inferencing
Vocabulary
Grammar
100
First-person and third-person are the main types of this (_____ of _____)
Point of View
100
What is the topic of a story? (What does "topic" mean?)
The topic of a story is what the story is about.
100
An inference is when you take something you already ____ and combine it with something from ____ to create new ______.
know, a text, understanding/knowledge
100
These are word parts that go at the beginning of a base word (examples: un-, non-, mis-).
What are prefixes?
100
What are the four sentence types that we discussed?
We discussed commands, questions, statements, and exclamations.
200
In first-person point of view, the narrator is:
a: a character in the story.
b: someone who is not in the story.
c: really excited
d: a green martian
a: a character in the story
200
What is the theme of a story? (What does theme mean?)
The theme of a story is the lesson the author wants to teach.
200
What is an inference you can make about the setting? 
It is cold
200
These are word parts that go at the end of a base word (examples: -ful, -less).
What are suffixes?
200
What punctuation marks go at the end of each sentence type?
A statement ends with a period.
A question ends with a question mark.
An exclamation ends with an exclamation mark.
A command ends with a period.
300
What is the point of view?
--I play soccer with my cousin Tato and he says, “Marisol, your skin is brown like mine, but your hair is the color of carrots. You don’t match!”--
First-person
300
Is this an example of topic or theme?
- Never give up and always do your best.
theme
300
Weslandia ends by telling us that Wesley "had no shortage of friends" when summer was over. What can you infer about Wesley's bullies?
They stopped bullying him and became his friends.
300
What word means "full of joy"?
What word means "without joy"?
Joyful means "full of joy."
Joyless means "without joy."
300
Why does the following sentence use all capital letters for some words?
--Jimmy looked inside his shoe and saw something moving. "AH! A CRICKET!" Jimmy cried out.--
The sentence uses all capital letters in some words to show strong feeling.
400
What is the point of view in this sentence?
"My big brother Zach is a unique guy."
First-person
400
What is the topic of Scaredy Squirrel?
What is the theme of Scaredy Squirrel?
The topic has to do with a squirrel who is scared but makes a new discovery.
The theme of the story could be that we can have a good time doing something that used to scare us.
400
Mr. Westborough woke up one winter morning and saw a man in his front yard. The man did not move or say anything for a whole week, but Mr. Westborough did not mind. Eventually, over the next few days, the man went away. Who was the man?
A snowman.
400
Context clues: Can you figure out what this word means?
Suzy, you must cease talking about how the movie ends because not all of us have seen it yet.
Cease means stop.
400
Can you find and fix the typo (spelling mistake) in the following sentence?
"I was feeling hungry, so I mad a snack."
"Mad" should be changed to "made," because "mad" has a short vowel sound, but "made" has a long a sound.
500
What point of view do these pronouns usually show?
- I
- he
- her
- me
- they
- first-person
- third-person
- third-person
- first-person
- third-person
500
What was the theme of Weslandia?
One possible answer: it is okay to be different.
500
A cowgirl rode into town on Friday. She stayed for three days and then she left on Friday. How is possible?
The horse was named Friday.
500
Context clues: Can you figure out what this word means?
Because the container was transparent, we could see what was inside of it. The other container was dark-colored, so we could not see what was inside of that one.
Transparent means see-through or clear.
500
Can you fix the following sentence?
"Georgina, can you bring me my reading glasses."
The sentence should end with a question mark, because the speaker is asking Georgina a question.