Genre
Groups of lines, arranged in stanzas, and often end in rhyming words.
Poetry
What are the 5 vowels?
a, e, i, o, u
Name two parts of speech and what they do.
Noun: a person, place, thing or idea
Pronoun: takes the place of a noun
Verb shows action,
Adjective describes a noun,
Adverb describes a verb
What are the people in a story or play called?
characters
With what type of letter do all sentences begin?
A capital letter
A story that is fiction, but has characters, setting, and a problem that could be true.
Realistic Fiction
What are the letters of the alphabet, that are not vowels, called?
consonants
What three things make a sentence?
A sentence has a complete thought with a subject and predicate.
The part of the story that tells where and when something is happening
setting
When writing a response to a question, what must the writer do?
Restate the question
Text written to inform or explain a topic and to give facts and details about people, places, events, or ideas
Informational Text
What are the sound units of a word called?
phonemes
True or false: a fragment is an incomplete thought that is missing a subject, a verb, or both, and cannot stand alone.
True
What is an infographic?
a drawing or photograph that gives more information about the text
What type of spacing does a paragraph begin with?
indent
A short story that often has kings, queens, talking animals and begins with the words "Once upon a time...."
Fairytale
When you divide the work "abstract" by syllables, what pattern does it follow?
VC/CV
The part of the sentence that shows action.
predicate
What are the "paragraphs" in a poem are called?
stanzas
What part of speech should not be used in a topic sentence, or when writing an answer to a question?
pronoun
True stories written about real people.
Biography
Rather then using the "au" spelling in the beginning or middle of a word, when do you use the "aw" spelling instead?
When the word ends with "L,", "K," or "N"
The part of a sentence that tells who or what is doing the action.
subject
Name two reasons an author may have for writing.
to entertain, perform or persuade
Name two parts of speech that make writing more detailed and exciting.
adjective and adverb