Fiction
Non-fiction
Poetry
Text Features
Drama
100
Fiction always includes this description of time and place.
What is setting?
100
The author's purpose for writing non-fiction could be to explain, _____, provide facts, or ________.
What is to teach, or to inform?
100
A group of lines in poetry, similar to a paragraph.
What is a stanza?
100
This text feature helps me know what words are important in the text.
What is BOLDED words?
100
The name for the group of people in a play.
What is the cast?
200
I chewed on my pencil as I paced back and forth across my bedroom. What was I going to do? It was bad enough that I was the new kid. But now I was sure to get laughed right out of fifth grade. How could my first homework assignment be such a disaster?


How does Anna feel?

What is worried
200
The genre of a text about a boy and his brother playing a game of kickball?
What is realistic fiction?
200
read the following stanza


A crabby old woman Not very wise, uncertain of habit with faraway eyes?

What does the word uncertain mean?

A) To be sure before

B) T be sure after

C) Not sure

D) Very sure

What is C) Not sure?
200
Author's use this to let the reader know what the main idea of the paragraph will be.
What is topic sentece?
200
These are the words that tell what the characters should be doing while on stage. These words are usually in (parenthesis).
What is stage directions?
300
These are based on the actions and words of the characters.
What are character traits?
300

This is the author's purpose of a newspaper article about the dangers of playing video games all day is _______________.

What is to inform?
300
Poetry that does not rhyme.
What is free verse?
300
Why would an author include photos and captions in an article about using a camera?
What is to SHOW how the camera works?
300
This gives details about the time and place that the story took place.
What is the setting?
400
Authors sometimes includes this hidden message or lesson in their stories.
What is a theme?
400

Read the following sentence.


Each colony has it's own home, called a hive.

What does the word colony mean?

A) Community

B) Property

C) Location

D) Competition

What is C) Community
400

Read stanza 2 


I Love the world when it is blue- a sweeping, rented beach-house view: blue sea, blue sky, blue dolphins too.

The word sweeping is used to show that the view is

A) beautiful

B) wide

C) bright

D) clean 

What is B) wide? 
400
Read the following


4. Pick up the memory card (F), Hold it so the label is facing you. The tiny metal prongs should be facing the camera. Put the card into the memory slot (G). Push the card gently into the slot until you feel the click

What does this step suggest about the memory card

A) You can insert the memory card in either direction

B) The memory card is tough and will not break easily

C) It does not matter where you insert your memory card

D) If you put the memory card in the wrong way, it will not work

What is D) If you put the memory card in the wrong way, it will not work?

400
Lines that are spoken between two or more characters.
What is dialogue?
500
Read this sentence

"It isn't covered in gold, but it is indeed priceless"

What is the main reason the author describes the papyrus as "priceless"?

A) it is a form of trash 

B) it contains valuable information

C) it is difficult to find

D) It dates back thousands of years

What is C) It is difficult to find?
500
Which sentence best supports the idea that the queen is important to the hive?


A) Like a streak of lightening, the old queen departs from the hive, taking a swarm of bees with her to start another colony

B) It is to lay eggs, which may total as many as 1,500 per day

C) Queen bees are formed when the worker bees feed the developing larvae a special substance called royal jelly

D) A colony can only have one queen

What is D) A colony can only have one queen?

500
read stanza 1 from "The Rain Cloud and the Camel"


Said the rain cloud to the camel, "Why don't you move away? The desert's such a prickly place. Why would you want to stay?"

Which inference do the rain cloud's words best support?

A) He has never seen a desert before

B) He feels sorry for the camel

C) He has been all over the world

D) He wants the camel to feel bad


What is B) He feels sorry for the camel?
500
Writers organize information 3 different ways.
What is cause and effect, compare and contrast, and sequence?
500
The italic words are used for...?
What is stage directions?
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