3rd Grade Reading Skills

Question 1

How a character feels at a certain point in the text is called a...

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character emotion

Question 2

Writing that appeals to our five senses, and helps us visualize what we are reading is called..

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sensory language

Question 3

Words that have opposite meanings are called...

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antonyms

Question 4

A genre written to entertain that contains characters, setting, and plot is called...

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fiction

Question 5

A genre written to explain something or give information is called...

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expository

Question 6

When I see a passage that is skinny and does not have paragraphs, it is...

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poetry

Question 7

When you compare two things using "like" or "as" it is called a...

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simile

Question 8

When you compare two things and do NOT use "like" or "as" it is called a...

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metaphor

Question 9

The way a poem makes us feel is called the...

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tone

Question 10

A genre written using lines and stanzas is called...

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poetry

Question 11

When you can make a picture in your head of what you are reading, you are...

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visualizing

Question 12

A genre written about a real person's life is called...

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biography

Question 13

A text written that gives a series of steps or directions is called a...

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procedural text

Question 14

What the text is mostly about is called the...

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main idea

Question 15

Where the story takes place is called the...

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setting

Question 16

Poetry that is funny...

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humorous

Question 17

Poetry that tells a story is called...

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narrative

Question 18

Poetry that does not rhyme is called...

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free verse

Question 19

A short description of what happened in the text is called a...

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summary

Question 20

When we don't know what a word means, we look around the word using our...

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context clues

Question 21

How a character behaves most of the time is called a...

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character trait

Question 22

When I see a passage that has lots of dialogue and shorter paragraphs, it is...

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fiction

Question 23

What is added to the end of a word to change the meaning?

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suffix

Question 24

Poetry that sounds like a song...

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lyrical

Question 25

The message or lesson in a story is called the...

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theme

Question 26

What is added to the beginning of a word to change the meaning?

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prefix

Question 27

When I see a passage that has text features jumping off the page, it is...

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expository

Question 28

What happens in a story is called the...

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plot

Question 29

An inference is made by using our schema (what we already know) and...

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clues from the text

Question 30

When I see a passage that has some text features and is about a real person's life, it is...

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biography

Question 31

Captions, photographs, headings, and bold print are examples of...

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text features

Question 32

Words that mean the same thing are called...

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synonyms

3rd Grade Reading Skills

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3rd Grade Reading Skills

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