Central Idea and Details
The central idea of a passage is: a) How the story starts b) How the story ends c) What the whole passage was mostly about d) What the first sentence is about.
What is C? The central idea is what the whole passage or story was mostly about
When reading a story, what does "character perspective" mean?
A. The physical appearance of a character
B. How a character sees and feels about events in the story
C. The age of the character
D. What the character likes to eat
What is B.) How a character sees and feels about events in the story?
1. What is the main purpose of text features in a nonfiction book?
a. To make the book longer
b. To entertain the reader with pictures
c. To help readers better understand the information
d. To make the book look more colorful
What is c.) To help readers better understand the information
What is the prefix in the word "unhappy"? What does it mean?
What is UN? What is NOT HAPPY?
2. When reading a poem, which of these tells you it's a haiku?
a. It has rhyming words at the end of each line
b. It has 5 syllables, then 7, then 5 syllables
c. It tells a funny story with five lines
d. It doesn't follow any specific pattern
What is b.) 5,7,5?
If a story keeps talking about being kind to others and helping friends, what is probably the central idea?
A. The story is about playing sports
B. The story is about friendship and kindness
C. The story is about favorite foods
D. The story is about going to school
When an author claims a character is brave, which example best supports this trait?
A. The character has blonde hair
B. The character lives in a big house
C. The character stands up to a bully
D. The character likes ice cream
What is c.) the character stands up to a bully?
What is the text structure below?
A paperback and a kindle are both ways to read a book. Paperbacks take up a lot of space on your book shelf, but one kindle can hold thousands of books in just the space of a tablet.
What is compare and contrast?
My body was still *quivering* after my brother jumped out from behind the bush to scare me.
What is shaking?
What makes a limerick different from other types of poems?
a. It has no rhythm or rhyme
b. It's always about nature
c. It has exactly three lines
d. It's a funny five-line poem with a specific rhythm
What is d.) It's a funny five-line poem with a specific rhythm?
When reading a text, where can you often find the author's main claim?
A. In the introduction or first few paragraphs
B. Only in the pictures
C. Only in the last word
D. Only in the middle paragraph
What is A.) introduction or first few paragraphs?
How can readers verify if an author's claim about a character is accurate?
A. Ask their friends what they think
B. Look at the book's pictures
C. Make up their own story
D. Find evidence from the text to support the claim
What is d.) find evidence from the text to support the claim?
What is the text structure below?
When I unrolled the carpet on my living room floor, I accidentally bumped into the table. The table fell with a crash and the green potted plant on top of it tumbled onto the hardwood floor. What a mess!
What is cause and effect?
The giant ice cream sundae was so *scrumptious* that I ate the entire thing.
A.) Sweet
B.) Bad
C.) Delicious
D.) Sour
What is C.) Delicious?
Free verse poetry is different from other poetry because:
a. It doesn't have to rhyme or follow rules
b. It must rhyme every line
c. It can only be about nature
d. It must be very short
What is a.) It doesn't have to rhyme or follow rules?
What is the central idea of this paragraph? I believe that children should not have homework on the weekends. Children needs time to play. They also need to spend time with their families. Some kids have extra activities like karate or dance. Homework for children on the weekends is a bad idea.
What is children should not have homework on the weekends?
What makes characters act the way they do?
What is motivation?
What is chronological order in a text?
A. When events are organized by importance
B. When events are organized from first to last
C. When events show cause and effect
D. When events show similarities and differences
What is B?
Chronological order is when events are organized from first to last
Which word has the prefix "re" and what is the meaning of "re"?
A. remind
B. replay
C. return
D. All of the above
What is D? What is AGAIN?
How many sentences make up the first detail of this paragraph? My birthday cake was delicious and beautiful. The flavor was chocolate. It was swirled with vanilla. It tasted great with milk. The decorations included roses and my name in script writing. I loved how my cake tasted and looked.
What is 3?
When an author makes a claim about a character being dishonest, what should readers look for?
A. Times when the character tells lies or tricks others
B. The character's physical appearance
C. Where the character lives
D. What the character eats for breakfast
What is a.) times when a character tells lies or tricks others?
In a compare and contrast text structure, what are authors mainly trying to show?
A. What happened first and what happened last
B. What caused something to happen
C. How two things are alike and different
D. The most important events in order
What is C?
Compare and contrasting helps up find out how two things are alike AND different
In rhymed verse poetry, what usually happens at the end of lines?
a. The lines get shorter
b. The words rhyme
c. The words are bold
d. The lines have pictures
What is b.) the words rhyme?