4th Grade
Reading
Reading
What is a character trait?
An adjective/qualities to describe a character in a story!
Short response answers need to an A & B, what does A & B stand for?
B: Text Evidence
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 our FAB 5 emojis for a PLOT DIAGRAM?
Stick Guy: Characters
House: Setting
Heart: What does the character want?
Sad Face: Conflict/Problem
Happy Face: 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 ONE step from "Attack the Question"
1. Is it whole text or paragraph/line?
2. Academic Vocab.
3. What is it asking me to look for?
4. Eliminate One
5. Get it down to 50/50
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 do you call the sentences in a text that starts and ends with quotation marks?
What is the definition I have given you for this?
Dialogue
- People talking
What is a noun
Person, place, thing, idea
What do with call words that are 2 words combined using an apostrophe?
PROVIDE ONE EXAMPLE OF IT!
A contraction
don't, can't, won't, aren't, couldn't,
haven't, we'll
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 is author's purpose?
WHY THE AUTHOR WROTE THE STORY
What does it mean to make an inference?
To make an educated guess.
Using what I know + what is in the text = make a guess (inference)
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
What are the parts of an ECR (Extended Constructued Response)?
Prompt
Answer
Text Evidence
Why is it important?
Conclusion
"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 the parts of a plot diagram.
Exposition, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution