Reading 6th Grade
Name 3 text features you would see in a Non-Fiction text.
What is title, heading, bullet points, paragraphs, pictures, diagrams, subheadings, numbered lists, etc.
What do you need to have in an essay to back up a claim in a persuasive speech?
What is evidence and/or details?
The type of figurative language that repeats the same consonant at the beginning of several words.
What is alliteration?
When should you include a period in your writing?
When the thought or idea is complete.
Name 3 things that Ms. Song happy.
What is coffee, no screaming, Target, tacos, hot cheetos, twix, being outside, reading, running, traveling, etc.
A word opposite in meaning to another.
What is an antonym?
This type of text usually informs readers on everyday life things.
What is functional text?
"The bright orange walls screamed at her as she walked into the room." is an example of what type of figurative language?
What is personification?
The term for a person, place, or thing is...
What is noun?
Name the two types of characters in a fiction story/book and examples of BOTH.
What is protagonist and antagonist?
Protagonists --> Harry Potter, Moana, Nemo, Katniss, etc.
Antagonists --> Thanos, Draco, Malfoy, the Joker, Scar, Mother Gothel, etc.
The perspective from which a story is told/written.
What is point of view?
This type of writing is made up/not real, but the stories, characters, and/or settings could be part of the real world.
What is realistic fiction?
Which prefix means "change" AND give one word that uses this prefix.
What is trans- (transport, translate, transition, transform, etc.)?
Which prefix means again? Give an example of a word with that prefix.
What is re-?
Examples: redo, reuse, reread, rewrite, retry, renew, etc.
Who is the youngest teacher at LTES?
What is Ms. Anderson?
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 theme?
What are the two types of conflict in fiction? Give an example/scenario of each.
What is internal and external conflict?
1) Internal --> Sally can't make up her mind about which college she wants to go to.
2) External --> Sally is on a plane and the plane crashes in the middle of nowhere.
What type of poem is this?
There once was a man named Lee
who decided to climb a tree.
Suddenly a branch snapped
and there was a loud gasp
Now Lee has a hospital fee.
What is limerick?
The term for repetition of similar sounds at the end of lines.
What is a rhyme?
What figurative language is used in this lyric?
"I'll spend forever wondering if you knew."
What is hyperbole?
The main events of a play, novel, or movie and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence.
What is a plot?
This type of writing uses figurative language. Is usually short in length and includes techniques such as repetition.
What is poetry?
What information is usually revealed in the exposition?
What is setting, characters, and (sometimes the conflict)?
1) What is the sentence an example of? 2) Identify the sense that is being appealed to in the sentence.
The wind whistled through my patio screen.
What is sensory language and sound?
What grade level Ms. Song first work with here at LTES?
What is third-grade?