General ELA
What are the people or animals in stories referred to as?
What are characters?
How many hours of sleep should you get the night before the test?
What is 8 hours?
This is when 2 words means the same thing
What is a synonym?
What can kids make, but not hold?
What is noise?
Everything was peaceful. There was almost no sound except for a few chirping birds. There was a chill in the air, and a small ray of light was lighting up the sky. It wouldn't be long before the streets would begin to fill up with people and cars. What can you infer from this passage?
What is it's early in the morning?
What is the name of the person who writes the story?
Who is the author?
What time should you get to school on test days?
What is no later than 7:45 a.m?
This figure of speech is being used in this sentence “The boy felt like a lion because he was so courageous”
What is a Simile?
How old is Mrs. Autumn?
What is 33?
Nora has always liked being outside. She loves hiking long trails, climbing steep rocks, and exploring dark caves. Nora dreams that someday she'll become a pilot and travel to places like Antarctica and the Galápagos Islands. What can you infer about Nora?
What is Nora loves a good adventure?
This is where the story takes place?
What is the setting?
What do you do if you don't know the answer to a question?
What is skip it and come back to it later?
This is what you call a book that talks about a person’s life from beginning to end
What is an Biography?
The English alphabet goes from A to Z, but my name goes from Z to A. What am I?
What is a zebra?
Ronald carefully held the guitar and slowly plucked out the familiar tune "Happy Birthday." He sang along quietly to find the right notes. When he got one wrong, he started again. What can you infer about Ronald?
Ronald is just learning how to play the guitar.
What kind of language do we use to improve our stories? This is not something that is literal.
What is Figurative Language?
How many times should you read through a text?
What does sensory details include?
What is details that help you see, hear, smell, taste and feel
This video game was released in 2011, but was not popular until 2017.
What is Fortnite?
Grayson checked the time on his computer. Perfect! he thought. It will take twenty minutes to finish my report, three minutes to pack my bag, and thirteen minutes to travel to school. I'll arrive at school at exactly 8:07. What can you infer about Grayson?
What is Grayson loves to plan things out?
Non-fiction means...
The story is true
You should skip every question you don't know and never go back to it. True or False?
What is false?
DAILY DOUBLE!! This is what you call a story you write about your own life.
What is an Autobiography
What has a head and tail but no body?
What is a coin?
FREEEBIEEEEEEEEEEE!
FREEBIEEEEEEEEEE!
Fiction means...
A story is not real
What should you do with scratch paper in ELA?
You can use it to jot down notes, ideas, and other things.
This is a piece of literature that is based on imaginary people, events and worlds
What is Fiction?
What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
A stamp
Cassie stood on her front porch and stared out at the prairie. The vast acres of land were as flat and empty as a desert, with no houses in sight. Cassie sighed, thinking about the crowded streets and tall buildings near her last place. What can you infer about Cassie?
What point of view is this?
His name was Charlie Laird, and he'd lived in Cyprus Creek all twelve years of his life. He and his little brother, Jack, had grown up in a house just down the street. In fact, Charlie could see the old place from his new bedroom window.
From Jason Segel and Kirsten Miller, Nightmares! Copyright 2014 by Jason Segel Company
What is third person?
How many sentences should you have is a writing prompt asks you to write a " short response"?
What is 3-5 sentences?
What is an adjective?
Describes a noun
Who is Mrs. Autumn's favorite student of ALL TIME?
Who is RIVER (Eugene) EDWARDS?
The art teacher walked past each student, looking at each painting, sometimes nodding, frowning. When she reached Whitney's painting, she looked at it for a long moment. Then she slowly began to smile. What can we infer from the art teacher?
What is the art teacher loves Whitney's painting?
Name 3 character traits
What is the amount of questions you can skip before submitting?
ZERO!!!! Answer all questions!!!
This is what we call a short statement of the main points of a story.
What is a Summary?
What is Mrs. Autumn's favorite animal?
REALLLYYYYY...... if you get this one WRONG!!!
a bald eagle
Dirk walked slowly behind Colleen, pausing to take pictures of the giant skyscrapers, bright signs, and dense crowds. "Come on," Colleen said impatiently. "Haven't you ever seen a building before?" What can we infer about Dirk?
What is Dirk has never been to a big city before?
FREEEEEEEEEEEBEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!
YOU GOT LUCKY!!!!!
What do you do if you do not know how to pronounce a name in a passage?
You replace it with your name or another common name.
What does the theme tell you?
What the author wants you to take away from the texr.
FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEBEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!
CONGRATS!!!
Mr. Huffman handed back the written reports. Trevor smiled when he saw the gold star on the top of his paper.
"For our next project," Mr. Huffman announced, "you will be asked to read your reports aloud to the class." Trevor began to tremble, and his heart sank to his feet. What can we infer about Trevor?
What is Trevor doesn't like speaking in class?
Give an example of both a simile and a metaphor
Answers may vary
What do you do if you run into an unfamiliar word?
Use context clues to determine the definition.
Setting tells what two things?
Time and Place
What are our lunch ladies' names?
Mrs. Michelle
Ms. Bunny
Mrs. Charlotte
Mrs. Sandra
Scarlett loves to see her uncle when he comes home from work. What colors did he get on himself today? Scarlett always wonders. Yesterday, his shirt was covered with streaks of purple, and his hair and face were dotted with orange and blue. The day before that his hands had specks of yellow. What can we infer about Scarlett?
Scarlett's uncle is a painter.