4th Grade
Reading
Reading
What is a character trait?
An adjective to describe a character in a story!
Short response answers need to include RADD, what does RADD stand for?
Restate, answer, detail, detail
What is the difference between theme and main idea?
Theme is the lesson of the story. Main idea is what the story is MOSTLY about.
What is Text Structure?
The way that an author organizes the information in a text
What are some story elements of a narrative (fictional story)?
Character, setting, plot, problem, solution
What is it called when you write the events of a story in the order that they happen?
Sequence
Put the commas where they belong.
Johnny the cat Jimmy the rat and Frank the dog went to the movies but they forgot their popcorn.
Johnny the cat, Jimmy the rat, and Frank the platypus went to the movies, but they forgot their popcorn.
Name a reading test taking strategy to help you answer questions. (there are more than one)
Reread the text, annotate, find text evidence, eliminate, highlight important parts, read questions first
What does it mean to "find the central idea" of a passage?
Tell what the WHOLE passage is about.
What are the people or animals that have dialogue in a narrative called?
Characters
What can you look for in a text to find the authors purpose?
Repeating words, descriptive language, when the author talks directly to you
What is a noun
Person, place, thing, animal
What is the difference between a biography and an auto-biography?
A biography is a book about a person written by that person and an autobiography is a book about a person written by someone else.
If the story is written by a character IN the story, what is the point of view?
First person POV
What is the answer to a problem in the story?
Solution
"She observed an interesting contrast between the two dogs" What does contrast mean?
differences
What type of text is this?
French fries are a food that is enjoyed all around the world. There are thousands of fast food places around the world that have french fries. There are so many different kinds too! There are curly fries, steak fries, shoestring fries, crinkle fries, seasoned fries, sweet potato fries, and hand cut fries. Not only can you eat your fries plain, you can dip them in a variety of sauces. Some of the most popular ones are ketchup, honey mustard, barbecue sauce, and mayonnaise.
Informative text
What can you look for to find the authors purpose?
Repeating words, descriptive language, when the author talks directly to you
What does it mean to make an inference?
To make an educated guess.
What is a verb
An action word
Dylan goes to the Air and Space Museum every chance he gets because he is fascinated by planes. What does fascinated mean?
interested in
How many paragraphs should this prompt be:
- Explain why one character in each story plays a trick on other characters
- Describe how the tricks the characters play are alike
- Describe how the tricks the characters play are different
- Use details from BOTH stories to support your responses
4
"finding friends for fun Fridays featuring food for fish" is an example of what kind of figurative language?
Alliteration
What are some text features?
Heading, Subheading, Captions, Photographs, Maps, Graphs, title, sub-title, illustration
List ALL of the elements of a story arc
Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution