Vocabulary
Use the sentence below to define elated.
Sophie was elated when she won first place in the school science fair!
Happy or excited
Similes or Metaphors: Which form of figurative language uses like or as to compare two things?
Similes
A synonym for theme
Proper nouns must always start with a ______.
Capital
The ground is wet because it rained all night.
What is the CAUSE?
Rained all night
What is a synonym for the word colossal?
The colossal pizza was too much for me to eat!
Huge, large
Provide an example of an onomatopoeia.
A sound word -- boom, pop, pow, zoom, zip, buzz, etc.
(Answers may vary, teachers are the judge!)
Is friendship a theme or a topic?
A Topic
In this sentence, what is the action verb?
The dog ran around the yard.
Ran
What the passage is mostly about is the ______ _____.
Main Idea
What is an antonym for the word gritty?
The gritty and rough sandpaper made a loud sound as the carpenter sanded down the piece of wood.
Smooth
What type of figurative language gives human like qualities to non-human things?
Personification
What is the theme of a story where a character learns to tell the truth after lying causes problems?
Honesty is the best policy/honesty is important
Find all the adjectives in the following sentence:
It was a hot day and all the hungry students wanted was an delicious and cold ice cream.
Hot, hungry, delicious, cold
Which text feature gives you more information about a picture?
Caption
Use the sentence below to define the word impact.
The tornado has a devastating impact on the small town, knocking down many homes and powerlines.
effect or influence
Peter piper picked a pickled pepper is an example of what type of figurative language?
Alliteration
A story shows a girl who keeps trying even when something is hard and finally succeeds. What is the theme?
Never give up or perseverance pays off
Which word in the sentence is the adverb?
She quickly ran around the track.
Quickly
A short retelling of a story is known as a ___________.
The firefighters started the day rescuing a cat from a tree and then visiting a school to run a fire drill. Their day quickly changed after lunch when they had to rush into a fire. They saved people and animals from the fire. They risked their own lives saving the lives of others.
Firefighters can be described as valiant. Use the story and your prior knowledge of firefighters to define valiant.
MCAS Tip: When you have to use a text and your own background knowledge to draw conclusions about something this is known as INFERENCING! You may see words like inferencing, infer, or inference on the MCAS test (:
Brave or determined.
The 4th grade teachers told their students "break a leg!" on MCAS day... what type of figurative language did the teachers use?
Idiom
Read the following summary: 'A young boy spends all his allowance on a new toy, but he sees his best friend is sad because they cannot afford an ice cream. The boy shares his last dollar with his friend instead of keeping it for himself.' What is a possible theme of this story?
*Teacher's judgment!*
Friendship and generosity are more valuable than possessions.
What is the correct way to change the following noun into a plural possessive noun?
child
children's
What is the difference between 1st person point of view, 2nd person point of view, and 3rd person point of view?
*Teacher Judgement!*
1st: Told by a character in the story, uses words like I and me.
2nd: Narrator who addresses the reader, uses words like you.
3rd: Told by a narrator who is NOT a character in the story, uses words like he, she, them