ELA Lingo
Building the Text!
FIGURE it out!
Text feature: What's the purpose?
5th Grade Trivia
100
What the story is mainly about?
Central or Main idea
100
Text describes an issue and explains how the issue can be resolved.
Problem and solution
100
Name the figurative language:
My brother moved as slow as a sloth when my mother woke him up at 6 am.
Simile
100
Shows where places/events are located
Map
100
Guess the food product:
Pringles
200
Adjectives, or descriptive words, used to describe a person's personality.
Character Traits
200
Text describes how things are alike and how they are different.
compare and contrast
200
"The bright orange walls screamed at her as she walked into the room." is an example of what type of figurative language?
Personification?
200
Gives the reader an idea of what the paragraph or section is all about.
Heading (or subheading)
200
Which is spelled correctly?
A) seperately
B) separately
C) separatelly
B) separately
300
The message or lesson that can apply to you/me
Theme
300
Text describes events in the order in which they occur.
Sequence/Chronological Order
300
It's raining cats and dogs.
This is an example of what type of figurative language?
Idiom
300
An important or key word in a text that the reader needs to know.
Bold Word
300
Who is this person? 
President Joe Biden
400
To retell the key details of a story or article in your own words, in sequence.
Summarize
400
the author explains how one thing causes another
cause and effect
400
Name the figurative language: "The boy was a skyscraper, towering over all the other students."
Metaphor
400
This feature uses labels to explain an image.
Diagram
400
Guess the food place:
Dunkin Donuts
500
How the story or passage is organized is known as its __________ ___________-
Text structure (Ex. Description, cause and effect, problem and solution, chronological order, compare and contrast)
500
The author gives several details of something to give the reader a mental picture.
Descriptive/Description
500
Which figurative language is the following sentence?
After walking a mile in gym class, my legs and feet were killing me!
Hyperbole
500
Explains what a photograph or illustration is about.
Caption
500
Sally's father has five daughters: Sammy, Stella, Sarah and Sadie. Guess the name of the fifth daughter?
Sally