4th Grade
What is the central idea of a text?
What the text is mostly about
What are these: " "
Quotation marks
What does the Greek root aqua mean?
a. water
b. air
A. water
The calendar followed by most of the Western world.
a. Roman
b. Ethiopian
c. Gregorian
Gregorian
-uses the words "he", "she", or "they" to tell a story.
- is told by someone who is not part of the story1st or 3rd person point of view
Third-person point of view
What names a person, place, thing or idea?
nouns
The prefix bi- in bicycle.
Two or 2
My great grandmother is a century old.
How long is a century?
100 years
What is wrong with this sentence?
the boy ran toward the building when he heard the noise.
the 't' in the needs to be capitalized
What word is a verb in the following sentence?
Tony slithered quietly down the hallway.
slithered
What does the prefix 'un' mean?
not
How many days are in a leap year?
366
What is the theme of this paragraph?
Sadie was kicking a soccer ball in the house and broke her mom's expensive vase. The vase was shattered into a million pieces. She went to her mom and told her what she had done even though she knew she'd be punished.
The theme is: Honesty
Emily is selective about what she eats. What does selective mean?
choosy; picky
The text structure that puts events in order is known as ___________.
a. compare and contrast
b. sequence or chronological
c. problem and solution
b. sequence or chronological
What does the word "gingerly" mean?
cautiously; timidly
What is narrative writing also called?
story writing
An exclamatory sentence ends with a/an....
Exclamation point
The test was a piece of cake. What does the idiom "piece of cake " mean?
It was easy.
What does the metaphor" She's an angel" mean?
She was really nice; sweet; kind or well behaved