Reading 4th Grade
The location and time of a story
What is the setting?
This part of an essay tells what the topic will be.
What is the introduction?
She was as quiet as a mouse.
What is a simile?
I love going to baseball games they are so much fun.
The incorrect sentence above is an example of this type of sentence.
What is a run-on sentence?
Someone who was anti-slavery was called an....
abolitionist
A word opposite in meaning to another
What is an antonym?
This is a short version of the story that includes just the important details.
What is the summary?
"The bright orange walls screamed at her as she walked into the room." is an example of what type of figurative language?
What is personification?
This is the action part of the sentence.
What is the verb?
Label the compass on the blackboard.
Mr B will check
What do you call a part of the book with titles and pages of where to find them?
What is the difference between a common noun and a proper noun?
Proper noun is capitalized; proper noun is a specific name of a person place or thing
The 3 things that are author's purpose.
Persuade, Inform, Entertain
A word that describes a noun
What is an adjective?
When angry colonists dumped tea into the Boston harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party!
What the story is mainly about?
Main idea
When the story is told from the perspective of the narrator, using words like "I" or "me"
What is first person?
To describe how things are alike and how they are different
What is compare and contrast?
A person place or thing.
What is a noun?
What were two causes of the American Revolution?
Bonus: Name 2 more.
The French and Indian War
Taxes
The Proclamation of 1863
The Boston Massacre
the main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence.
What is a plot?
This is the last part of a paper that wraps it up. It is best to end this with an impact statement.
Which figurative language is the following sentence?
She is a tornado when she gets angry!
Metaphor
What two punctation marks are used when showing dialogue?
Quotation marks and comma
What was the governing body by which the American colonial governments coordinated their resistance to British rule during the first two years of the American Revolution.
The Continental Congress