Parts of Speech
The part of speech which shows the relationship between a noun and another noun or pronoun in a sentence.
What is a Preposition?
The text feature that tells you what the passage that you are reading is all about.
What is the Main Heading?
Five words in which the letter 'Gg' has a soft sound.
What is examples - 'giant, ginger, gym, gentle, gymnast, gem, germ, age, stage.....'
The term used to describe the fear of dogs.
What is 'cynophobia'?
The first thing that is done before you start writing the first word of a paragraph.
What is indent or go in from the margin?
The part of speech of the word 'light' in the following sentence -
Mandy was told to 'light' the trash before the rain started falling.
What is a Verb?
Two things that a dictionary can assist students with.
What is getting the correct spelling of a word, the pronunciation of a word, definition, or part of speech?
Ten words which have the letter 'Gg' in them with the hard sound.
What is example (words with the vowels 'a, o or u', following the 'g'; consonants following the 'g'
gum, got, gadget, goat, Goliath, grade, glad......
An antonym for the word freedom.
What is captivity?
The five steps in the writing process.
What is 'prewriting, drafting, revising, editing and publishing'?
The word that is a relative pronoun in the following sentence.
I prefer reading stories which are realistic.
What is 'which'?
Amanda read a book and it reminded her of another story that was read to her in class. The type of connection that Amanda is making with this story.
What is text-to-text connection?
Give two words that have the same ending and rhyme with the word -
tough
What is rough, enough, trough
Three synonyms for the word huge.
What is enormous, massive, gigantic, humongous, large, big....?
This step in the writing process is described here:
The writer checks for spelling and grammatical errors.
What is editing?
Place an apostrophe here in the following sentence to show a possessive noun.
Both boys favourite sports are tennis and football.
What is after the 's' in boys - boys'
To skim a paragraph that you are about to read means that this is done.
What is reading rapidly in order to get a general overview of what the paragraph is about?
Three words ending with 'ough' but they rhyme with -
bow
What is 'bough, plough and slough'?
A prefix that can be used to change the meaning of each of the following words -
education, write, colon, purpose, fortune
What is 'coeducation, rewrite, prewrite semicolon, multipurpose, misfortune?
The description of the 'hook' when writing the introduction for any piece of writing.
What is the opening statement that should grab the attention of the reader?
These three nouns changed to adjectives:
noise, glitter, act
What is 'noisy, glittering and active'?
The difference between skimming and scanning.
What is 'Skimming is reading rapidly in order to get a general overview while Scanning is reading rapidly in order to find specific facts'?
Spelling for the word which means fear of spiders.
What is 'arachnophobia'?
A sentence using the homophone for the word 'threw'
What is.... (any sentence using correctly the word through)
This describes a paragraph.
What is a group of sentences about a topic?