5th Grade
Grammar
Grammar
What is a noun?
Person, place, or thing
What should always go at the end of a sentence?
Punctuation. (.!?)
What is the setting in a story?
Where and when the story takes place
What is an inference?
a guess / assumption based on text details and your own knowledge
To convince someone to believe or do something through reasoning, argument, or appeal to emotions: Which author's purpose for writing is this?
Persuade
What is personification?
Giving non-human things human qualities
Period, question mark, and exclamation marks are known as _________ marks.
punctuation
What is the conflict in a story?
the problem
What are the other terms for main idea?
Key idea or central idea
What is a summary?
A short version / retelling of the text with just the main ideas.
What is an idiom?
A phrase that means something different then what it says
What does multi-paragraph mean?
More than one paragraph
List three author's purposes.
Persuade, inform, entertain
What is main idea?
What the text is mostly about
What does compare and contrast mean?
Tell how something is alike and different (similarities and differences)
What is the past tense of drive?
drove
How many sentences are in a paragraph?
3-5 sentences
What is the theme of a story?
The overall message or lesson
What type of figurative language is used in the following sentence: The alarm clock screamed at me this morning.
Personification
Why do you use context clues?
To determine the meaning of unfamiliar words
What is a verb?
An action word!
In which paragraph do you state your opinion/claim?
Paragraph 1/ Introduction paragraph
What does text evidence mean?
Showing proof, using quotations from the text
Stories set in imaginative worlds with magical elements: Which genre is this?
Fantasy
What is the main idea of a text?
What is a simile?
Comparing two thing using like or as
What is author's purpose?
WHY an author writes
What is the meaning of abrupt as used in this sentence? "The car came to an abrupt stop to avoid hitting the curb."
Sudden, quick