4th Grade
ELA
ELA
Why do we annotate a text?
To better understand the text.
To help us find the answers.
These are: " "
What are quotation marks?
What does the prefix "pre" mean?
What is before?
What is the message in a story?
It's what the author wants the reader to learn or take away from the text.
What should you use to determine the meaning of unknown words in a text?
There is no Glossary!
What are context clues?
What is dialogue?
When characters speak in a story.
"She is a rose."
Metaphor, it does not use like or as in the comparison.
In the word interrupting, what is the prefix?
inter
What is a short piece of written text that highlights only the main parts of a longer story?
A summary
Which text feature is often present with a photograph?
What is caption?
What is the meaning of the word reveal as used in the sentence below?
The magician was about to reveal to the audience how he did one of his famous tricks.
Show
What is the author's claim?
What the author believes
If the prefix -un goes in front of the word available, what does the new word mean?
Ex: The Needoh is unavailable.
You may not use the word available.
What is not able to do something
The conflict is another word for the ____________ in a story.
What is problem?
The central idea, message, or the overall meaning of a story
What is THEME?
What is the theme of this paragraph?
Sadie was kicking a soccer ball in the house and broke her mom's expensive vase. The vase was shattered into a million pieces. She went to her mom and told her what she had done even though she knew she'd be punished.
A. family B. Honesty C. Hope D. Love
What is B-Honesty?
Give an example of a synonym for hard.
ex: "This test is hard."
difficult, challenging, tough
The text structure that gives readers events in the order they happen is known as
What is sequence or chronological?
This text structure uses phrases such as as a result of, due to, because, and therefore.
Cause & effect.
When the narrator is a character in the story and uses I, we, us, it is in which point-of-view?
A. first-person B. third-person
C. other-person D. narrator
What is A: first-person?
This type of account includes specific details, events, and recollections that could only come from someone who experienced the event.
"Crum was known as a hothead, often getting angry with customers and losing his temper."
What is the meaning of the phrase "hot-head"?
Quick tempered, easily angered or agitated.
"The Statue of Liberty waved goodbye." This is an example of what type of figurative language?
a) onomatopeia b)metaphor c)personification
C.) Personification
"The stars are like diamonds in the sky". Is it a metaphor or simile
simile
What determines the setting of a story?
When and where it takes place.