Rewards & Stari - Game Review

Which best describes a summary?

• a really long piece of writing

• a dumb thing that teachers made up

• the entire story retold in your own words

• the main ideas and important details of the beginning, middle and end of a passage/story

Answer explanation

Same as the 5 W's

Turn over a bag of potato chips. Is the label interesting? A simple food recipe may use several ingredients. These come from the soil and from chemistry labs around the world. Surprises also show up in the labels on clothing and other products. Look at the label on a package of lipstick. The tube seems small and shiny, but inside lipstick there is soap, oil, fish scales, and wax!

Which is the best way to summarize this passage?

• A bag of potato chips seems like a simple recipe. There are many ingredients from the soil and from chemistry labs.

• Clothes and other products have many ingredients as well. Lipstick alone has soap, oil, wax, and fish scales.

• Labels show what goes into food, clothing, and other products. A simple product may have many ingredients.

• Lipstick seems small and shiny. Look at the label sometime. It has at least four different ingredients.

Answer explanation

All about labels!

Is it important to periodically stop and think about what you have read?

• yes

• no

Answer explanation

Yes, so that you can CLARIFY what you are reading.

Click on ALL of the compound words.

• meatballs

• pasta

• basketball

• rimshot

• youngster

Answer explanation

pasta - 1 word

youngster - contains a suffix -ster

What can you summarize?

• only novels

• anything you read or watch

• only movies

• only nonfiction

Which of the following is the WEAKEST example of the use of the word persevere?

• running a marathon in the rain

• studying for 10 days to prepare for final exams

• using an eraser to erase a paragraph

• working on a 10 page research paper

Answer explanation

Weakest meant the worst example of having to persevere through a situation. ALL activities required a lot of time EXCEPT for erasing a paragraph.

Match the following illustrated meaning to it's vocabulary word.

• abundant

• 
• distraught

• 
• unify

• 
• persevere

• 

Answer explanation

distraught - deeply upset

persevere - continuing in a course of action EVEN if it is very difficult

abundant - LARGE quantities

unify - make united ( uni = one)

Even though Drew had a long ​ (a)   to the basketball court, he ​ (b)   each day in hopes of improving his skills on the court.

• commute
• persevered
• distraught

What national holiday is celebrated in ALL countries?

• Christmas

• Mardi Gras

• New Year's

• Groundhog's Day

Tomorrow is Isiah's birthday. He is excited because he gets to pick where he wants to eat dinner. Will it be at the Blue Iguana across from the mall? Or will it be fried shrimp at Steamboat Bill's in Lake Charles. Isiah struggled to decide which restaurant he would prefer or if he should go to his mom's favorite pizza place, Crust Pizza. How would he ever decide? Maybe he would just flip a coin.

What is the summary of this passage?

• Isiah loves Mexican food.

• Isiah loves his mother.

• Crust pizza is awesome!

• Isiah has many restaurants to choose from for his birthday.