Reading Literature
Define the academic vocabulary word:
Theme
The lesson of the story
Define the academic vocabulary word:
Main idea
The main idea is what the text is mostly about. We can find the topic of a passage and use KEY details to help us identify the main idea.
True or false: All poems have to Rhyme
False-many poems do not actually rhyme.
Is this a sentence or a fragment?
Gina and Sara.
Fragment. There is no predicate to this sentence
True or false: I can draw when I finish my state testing.
True or False: There is only one theme to a story.
False: We may learn a different lesson when we track other characters in our story. Example: In the three little pigs, we learn different lessons from each piggy, and the big bad wolf also teaches a whole other lesson than all the piggies.
Sarah stayed up late to study for her AASA reading test. She used her notes to make flashcards and practiced all the questions with her mom. Sarah made sure she knew all her reading standards for the test. Sarah scored proficient on her test the next day because she studied so hard.
The reader can infer that Sarah felt (select the best answer based on the evidence):
A. The test was important
B. Sleepy the next day
C. Nervous about her test
D. The test is not very important
A. The test was important to Sarah. The reader can tell because the details said: She stayed up to study, made flashcards, studied with her mom, and learned all her standards.
All the key details tell the reader she must feel like the test is important, or she would not have studied as hard.
Poems have _____________ instead of paragraphs.
Stanzas
Stanzas look like song lyrics. Instead of referring to the writing as a new paragraph, we would refer to it as a new stanza. Paragraphs are in a prose.
Select the correct word to finish the sentence:
They're/Their/There going to the store after school.
They're-this is the contraction for they are.
Who orginally invented the french fries:
A. The Germans
B. The French
C. The Spanish
A. The Germans
What is the point of view of the paragraph below?
Izzy and Jeremy went to the store to get milk. Izzy accidentally spilled the whole carton of milk this morning. Mom was upset there was a mess, but they cleaned it up quickly and told their mom they would get more from the story later.
Third person. We see the proper nouns Izzy and Jeremy, and the narrator also uses the pronouns they and their. We also cannot tell who the narrator is, and third person pronouns are someone outside the story.
Name the 5 types of text structure.
Description
Sequence
Compare and Contrast
Cause and Effect
Problem and Solution
What type of poem is this:
Below the water
Waits gold, silver, brass, and more
For someone to come
Haiku-Haiku poetry has a unique set up. The syllables are 5 for the first line, 7 for the next line, and 5 for the last line.
What is wrong with this sentence?
dylan and mary is best friends.
Dylan and Mary are best friends.
Are Avacado's fruits or vegetables?
Fruits
What type of figurative language is the sentence below?
The sun smiled down upon the happy little town.
Personification-Both the sun smiling and the happy town are human characteristics given to non-human objects.
Read the paragraph below and identify the text structure:
The whale shark is larger than the tiger shark. Both sharks have the same grey color and a lighter underside. The tiger shark has stripes on its back and the whale shark has dots. The whale shark has a larger mouth but the tiger shark has many sharp teeth.
This is compare and contrast. It tells the differences and similarities between the two sharks.
What is the theme of this poem?
If you root yourself
In love
And kindness,
Your heart will always bloom.
Love and kindness
What are the adjectives in the sentence below:
The enormous cat ran quickly to catch the tiny mouse.
Enormous and Tiny
True or false: You cannot smell when you are sleeping.
True
What type of figurative language is the sentence below? Be prepared to explain how you know it is this type of figurative language:
He was as strong as an ox.
This is a simile. Similes compare two unlike things using like or as. They often are confused with metaphors. Metaphors compare two unlike things without using like or as an example: Love is a battlefield
Find the main idea of the paragraph:
Dolphins are mammals that live in the ocean. Mammals are different than fish, reptiles, or birds. As a mammal, dolphins breathe oxygen, even though they live in water. Because they are mammals, a dolphin mother gives birth to a live baby, unlike reptiles and birds who lay eggs. A dolphin mother also feeds her baby milk like other mammals.
A dolphin is a mammal
I'm bored to death
Can that be even true
Well, I am still alive
I need something to do
I gotta find some intrest
But I don't know what
I can't think of anything
My mind's door is shut
I'm bored to death-hyperbole
My mind-door is shut-Imagery
Put the adjectives in the correct order:
She was thin, tall, young, Scottish, black-haired, beautiful woman.
She was a 1beautiful, 2tall, 3thin, 5young, 6black-haired, 7Scottish woman.
How many elections did President Lincoln lose before he finally became president?
5