RLA Vocab
The plot is...
A) the characters
B) the events of the story
C) the setting
D) I don't know
What is... B) the events of the story
Point of view: my, me, I, we, our
A) 1st
B) 2nd
C) 3rd
What is: first person point of view.
What are the 3 main types of author's purpose?
A) Show, evade, enlighten
B) Persuade, inform, entertain
C) Imagery, figurative language, theme
Persuade, Inform, Entertain, Convince, Tell, Describe, Show
These phrases are examples of what?
The wind howled at night. The book was so popular it flew off the shelves. The last piece of pie was calling my name.
personification, alliteration, simile
what is: Personification - giving human qualities to things and ideas that are not humans.
How would you combine these sentences?
my sister and I love games we play together
What is: My sister and I love games. We play together.
The setting is...
A) When and where a story takes place
B) The characters
C) The plot
D) A sequence
What is: A) When and where a story takes place
The pig ran out of the barn when he saw a garden snake near his trough.
What text structure is being used?
A) Problem/Solution
B) Description
C) Cause/Effect
D) Compare/Contrast
Cause and effect
What is a prompt?
A) The strategy used to respond to ECRs
B) A statement or question telling you what to write about.
C) Where the story takes place
D) The lesson learned
A statement or question telling you what to write about.
Pick the sentence with the correct commas.
A) Mrs. Johnson is gone today, isn't she?
B) Mrs. Johnson, is gone today isn't she?
C) Mrs. Johnson is gone today isn't, she?
A) Mrs. Johnson is gone today, isn't she?
I would like a _____ of pizza.
A) peace
B) piece
C) peece
D) paece
B) piece
***DAILY DOUBLE***
What does antonym mean?
A) Words that mean the same
B) The villain or bad guy
C) Words that mean the opposite of another
D) Words that are spelled the same
Words that mean the opposite of another
"A step by step of how to make a sandwich" is an example of...
A) a sequence
B) problem and solution
C) compare and contrast
D) cause and effect
What is: A) a sequence
**DAILY DOUBLE**
A group of lines in a poem, similar to a paragraph.
A) stanza
B) compound sentences
C) plot
D) prompt
What is a: stanza
Which compound sentence is correctly punctuated?
A) Penelope is kind and is a hard-working student.
B) Penelope is kind and, she is a hard-working student.
C) Penelope is kind, and she is a hard-working student.
D) Penelope is kind and she is a hard-working student.
C) Penelope is kind, and she is a hard-working student.
What needs to be changed in this sentence?
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of america.
america needs to be capitalized (America)
What is theme?
A) The characters
B) What the reader learned from the story/the lesson.
C) What the text is mostly about.
D) The setting
What is: B) What the reader learned from the story/the lesson.
Prefixes "dis-, mis-, un-, in-" mean...
A) less
B) able to
C) for
D) not
What is: D) not
A conversation between characters
What is: dialogue
My pencil is over _____.
A) they're
B) their
C) there
D) theyre
what is: C) there
The girl ran away from the disgusting monster. She watched aghast as it slowly followed its prey and attacked.
Using context clues, what does aghast mean?
scared or horrified
The central idea is...
A) What the reader learned from the text.
B) The setting
C) The plot
D) What the text is mostly about.
What is: D) What the text is mostly about.
What does it mean to infer?
Take you what you already know and apply it to the story. Making an educated guess.
To know and understand something (figure it out) without being told explicitly.
Assume
Answers may vary
Examples, ideas, or direct quotations from the text that support your answer is _________________________.
what is: evidence/text evidence
What change needs to be made to the sentence: "We know that its the phone," they said.
A) change know to knowed
B) delete the comma after phone
C) change its to it's
D) change they to They
what is: C) change its to it's
I haven't eaten anything all ____. I'm feeling ______.
A) weak, week
B) weke, weak
C) week, weak
D) weke, waek
C) week, weak