4th Grade
ELA 1
ELA 1
If a text uses the words "he", "she", or "they" to tell a story.
- is it third-person or first-person?
What is third-person point of view?
Give an example of a verb
What is run, skip, walk, jump, etc?
Explain when we use the FLOSS Rule (double the letter f,l,s,z) in a word.
1 syllable words, short vowel, ends in f,l,s,z
What does it mean to "summarize" a text?
A summary should highlight the main points of a story.
Can you explain the difference between a fiction and a nonfiction text?
Fiction: Imagination/not real
Nonfiction: Facts/based on real events
what is the meaning of the word reveal?
Show
What does is the author's claim? meaning
What is the author saying?
If the prefix -un goes in the word unavailable-what does that mean?
What is, not able to do something
What is the purpose of a conclusion in an essay?
The purpose of a conclusion in a story is to provide a final summary of the main points and discuss the core message.
What is a theme, and why is it important in a story?
The theme is a central idea, message, or the overall meaning of a story.
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.
What is honesty?
synonym of hard
difficult
The text structure what put events in order is know as
What is sequence or chronological?
Explain the difference between fact and opinion.
Fact: Information stated from proven evidence.
Opinion: How someone personally feels.
What is the difference between first-person and third-person point of view?
First-person: narrator (I, me, and my)
Third-person: narrator is not a character in a story. (he, she, they, and them)
Details that help support a main idea are called____.
What are supporting details?
antonym of excited
sad
I was bending over backwards to please my new teacher. The idiom "bending over backwards" means
What is really trying hard to please?
"The stars are like diamonds in the sky". Is it a metaphor or simile
simile
What is personification? Give an example
Giving human qualities to a nonhuman object.
The wind danced through the trees.