Reading 5th Grade
What is the setting?
The location and time of a story
The parts of a drama that let the actors/cast know what to do.
Stage directions
"He was as quiet as a mouse" is an example of a ___.
A simile
What figurative language is expressed in the following sentence:
I have told you a million times!
Hyperbole
What is the author's purpose? What is the author's message?
Purpose: Why did the author write the text
Message: What does the author want me to takeaway or learn
What is theme?
What the author is trying to teach you?
What is the summary?
This is a short version of the story that includes just the important details.
"The bright orange walls screamed at her as she walked into the room." is an example of what type of figurative language?
Personification
What is wrong with this sentence?
He walked to the store and buy some milk.
The verb tenses don't agree - walked is past tense and buy is present tense.
He walked to the store and bought some milk.
Using context clues, what does the word feeble mean in the sentence below?
Even though she is feeble, the old lady still walks a mile every day.
Feeble means without strength or weak
The vocabulary words listed in the back of the book is called?
Glossary
What text structure would I use when teaching someone how to bake a cake?
Sequence/Steps/Chronological
What is the ending of a story called? Where the problem is solved?
resolution
What figurative language is expressed in the following sentence:
Boom, crack, buzz
Onomatopoeia
What is a claim? What is a counter-claim? Provide Example.
Claim is the argument and Counterclaim is the opposite opinion of the claim.
What the story is mainly about?
Central or Main idea
What is the first-person point of view?
When the story is told from the perspective of the narrator, using words like "I" or "me"
What is compare and contrast?
To describe how things are alike and how they are different
What are the paragraphs in a poem called? and what are the sentences called?
Stanzas and Lines
What is a biography?
A book about a person written by someone else.
What is the author's point of view or perspective?
How the author feels about a topic is known as...
A picture with labels is called a _____.
A picture with labels is called a diagram.
Which figurative language is the following sentence?
"She is a tornado when she gets angry!"
Metaphor
What is an adjective? Provide an example!
A word that describes a noun.
What is the preposition in the sentence below?
Every year, we dance with my friends near the big pond.
Prepositions tell you: Where, When and How
Preposition: Near