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 or argumentative 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 artists Ms. Song listens to.
What is BLACKPINK, Taylor Swift, SZA, the 1975, the Weeknd, Ariana Grande, BTS, etc.
A word opposite in meaning to another.
What is an antonym?
Name all 4 specific types of conflict.
What is character vs. character, character vs. nature, character vs. society, and character vs. self?
"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?
What is an inference?
Make an inference about this situation:
Sally was in her bedroom while studying until she heard a knock on her door. She rolled her eyes and begrudgingly walked over to open her door. Her younger sister was holding a deck of cards.
What is "an inference is an educated guess you make from what you know and (text) evidence)."
Inference from the passage: Sally is annoyed, her younger sister wants to play, etc.
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.
What month is Mr. DJ born in?
What is April?
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.
Sara sits in the back of the covered wagon as it bumps along the rocky road. She and her family are moving to a new town in Kansas, where her dad bought land to farm. She and her parents left all of their friends and family in Virginia. They carry the few things that they brought with them in their covered wagon. Five other families are going with them in wagons of their own. It is a long trip over rough land. Sara is exhausted because she has walked with her dad all morning. Now, she is resting in the wagon.
What adjective would you use to describe Sarah & her family? Underline one piece of evidence to back up your answer.
What is brave/tired/etc.
Underline: "She and her parents left all of their friends and family in Virginia"
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 personification/sensory language and sound?
What grade level did Ms. Song teach first here at LTES?
What is third-grade?