Similes and Metaphors
This is figurative language and compares two items. In this type of comparison, two things are compared using the words "like" or "as".
What is a Simile?
A person, place or thing is called a...
What is a noun?
What does the word "Comprehension" mean?
What is "Gathering Meaning"?
We learned about Prefixes, Suffixes and Base Words.
Explain what each is.
Prefix:
What is a group of letters at the beginning of a word?
Base Word:
What is the root of the word, or the original word?
Suffix:
What is a group of letters at the end of a word?
What are the names of Mrs. Peter's dogs?
What is "Baxter"?
What is "Wilson"?
In this comparison, two items are being compared. What are the two things?
The sun is as hot as a stovetop.
What is "sun" and "stovetop"?
There are two types of verbs. One you can see being acted out and the other type you cannot.
What is an "Action verb" and what is "a Linking Verb"?
Fluency is foundational to reading. What does this mean?
What is the ability to read quickly, accurately and with expression?
Identify the base word in each of the following words:
elaboration
intrapersonal
hyperventilate
What is "elaborate"?
What is "person"?
What is "ventilate"?
What is the difference between fiction and non-fiction?
Also, list two specific examples of both fiction and non-fiction.
What is "fake" and "not fake"?
What is ...(answers will vary)?
Metaphors and Similes are not quite the same. Explain what makes these two figures of speech different and what makes them the same.
A Simile and a Metaphor are different because a Simile uses the language "like" or "as" and a Metaphor does not use this specific language.
What makes them the same is that they are both figures of speech and they both are comparisons of two items.
We got to experience Mrs. Dakin's pickles in Reading Intervention. The lesson was about the Five Senses (Sensational Sensory Details) as well learning about Adjectives. What is the definition of an adjective and what are the Five Senses?
What is "a word that describes a noun or a pronoun"?
What is "See, Sound, Taste, Smell, and Touch"?
When a reader examines the clues, reads between the lines like a detective and applies logic to figure out what is going to happen in text, this is called?
What is "Making Inferences"?
Read each of the following words out loud AND accurately. Also, identify both the prefix and suffix in these words:
exponential
hypercritical
kleptomania
What is "ial"? (suffix)
What is "hyper"? (Prefix)
What is "mania"? (suffix)
Mrs. Peters is married. What is the name of her husband?
What is "Robin"?
Identify the metaphor in the following text insert:
The clown was acting wild. His nose was like a cherry. The clown was an actor. He was very funny and he make the entire crowd cheer loudly.
What is "the clown was an actor"?
Adverbs are tricky words to find in text. An adverb is a word that describes or modifies a verb or another adverb. An adverb expresses 4 types of relationships. What are they?
What is "How?"
What is "Where?"
What is "When"?
What is "To what Extent?"
Authors always write for a purpose. What are the three purposes that an author uses?
What is "Persuade"?
What is "Inform"?
What is "Entertain"?
Read the following words accurately:
synchronize
conscience
theological
What is "synchronize"?
What is "conscience"?
What is "theological"?
Mrs. Peters loves to go fishing in the summer and in the winter. What are the names of the two lakes that she often fishes at?
What is "Jackfish"?
What is "Waterhen"?
Similes and Metaphors are considered literary devices and they make your writing more descriptive. What other times of words add description to your writing?
What is an adjective?
What are the three main Articles that we use in the English Language?
What is "a", "an" and " the"?
An Author often writes in a manner that allows the reader to "Make Connections" to what they are reading. What does this mean and why is it important in reading? What are the three ways to connect to text?
Making Connections means that a reader takes what they are reading, and they relate to it. They use their PRIOR KNOWLEDGE to relate. It is important to make connections as it creates retention of concepts.
The three ways to Connect are: Text to Self
Text to Text and Text to World
What is the difference between "Cognition" and "Metacognition"?
Cognition is the process of acquiring knowledge and skills.
Metacognition is "thinking about thinking"?
It is knowing what is "driving your brain"?
We learned to summarize stories. What does the word summarize mean? What are two strategies that a reader can use to summarize stories?
What is "to shorten" or "tell the most important parts"?
What is SOMEBODY WANTED BUT SO THEN?
What is Beginning, Middle and Ending?