Reading 5th Grade
The location and time of a story
What is the setting?
This part of an essay tells what the topic will be.
What is the introduction?
What are the 6 writing traits?
Ideas, Voice, Sentence Fluency, Conventions, Word Choice, Organization
I love going to baseball games they are so much fun people love baseball a lot because it is fun to watch.
The incorrect sentence above is an example of this type of sentence.
What is a run-on sentence?
Which way do "Latitude" lines run?
East and West (horizontal) (left and right)
People or things inside a story is called?
Characters
This is a short version of the story that includes just the important details.
What is the summary?
(use a pre-fix) What kind of writing helps you develop your first draft?
Pre-writing, graphic organizer, bullet points, etc...
This is the action part of the sentence.
What is the predicate/ verb?
Which way do "longitude" lines run?
North and South (up and down) (vertical)
What do you call a part of the book with titles and pages of where to find them?
This type of writing can be fiction or non-fiction, but is usually written as a story with characters, setting, a plot, and descriptive details.
What is narrative writing?
When you take a stand on an issue and try to tell the reader your point about this issue?
Argumentative Writing
A word that describes a noun
What is an adjective?
What are the 4 things a map should have?
Compass, Legend/Key, Scale, Title
This is the main message the author wants to convey in his/her story. This is the moral is the lesson that the writer wants you to learn from the story.
What is a theme?
When the story is told from the perspective of the narrator, using words like "I" or "me"
What is first person?
To describe how things are alike and how they are different
What is compare and contrast?
A person place or thing.
What is a noun?
Put these events (wars) in chronological order, starting from the earliest to the latest...
Revolutionary War
French and Indian War
Civil War
1. French and Indian War (1754-1763)
2.Revolutionary War (1775- 1783)
3. Civil War (1861-1865)
the main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence.
What is a plot?
This is the last part of a paper that wraps it up. It is best to end this with an impact statement.
What are the 4 reasons why we write?
To Inform, To Persuade, To Explain/Describe, To Entertain
The sloth may stay in the tree all day.
The helping verb in the sentence above is _____.
What is may?
After the Civil War, many years later, African Americans were subjected to very harsh and unfair laws. "Separate but Equal"
What were these laws called?
Jim Crow Laws