5th Grade ELA
What are the people 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?
There was 5/8 of a pie left in the fridge. Daniel ate 1/4 of the leftover pie. How much of a pie did he have?
Daniel had 5/32 of the pie.
What is the person called who writes the story?
What is the author?
What time should you get to school on test days?
No later than 8:30am. Then go get some breakfast.
This figurative language is being used in this sentence “The boy was like a lion because he was so courageous”
What is a Simile?
Pam baked some cupcakes for her friends. She baked 24 cupcakes. Each cupcake is 2/15 pound. If she packed 6 cupcakes in each box, what is the weight of each box?
The weight of each box is 4/5 of a pound.
The statement "the sun kissed me as I lay among the flowers" is what type of figurative language?
What is personification?
What do you do if you don't know the answer to a question?
What is skip it and come back to it later? OR Make an educated guess.
This is what you call a book that talks about a person’s life from beginning to end
What is an Biography?
The biggest zucchini from Joe’s farm is 2 5/8 pounds, which is 1 1/12 pound more than the average weight of zucchinis from his farm. What is the average weight of zucchinis from his farm?
The average weight of zucchinis from his farm is 1 13/24 pounds.
Text whose primary purpose is to inform the reader about the natural or social world.
What is informational text?
The multiple choice questions on a test are the fastest part and you should rush through it. True or False?
False. Take your time!
Predicting the answer to a question in your head before you read the answer choices is called?
4 6/8 ÷ 3/8 =
12 2/3
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
7 4/8 ÷ 5/8=
12
Fiction means...
The story is not real.
What should you do if you are answering multiple-choice questions?
This is a piece of literature that is based on people, events and worlds that are not true
What is Fiction?
A team of 7 construction workers worked together to build 3 sheds in 10 days. How much of a shed did each of them build?
Each of the workers built 3/7 of a shed.
FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
What should you do first before you read any text while testing?
What is read all of the questions first?
What is an adjective?
Describes a noun
An old building was demolished. 5 dump trucks are used to transport a total of 2 tons of rubble. How much rubble did each truck carry?
Each truck carried 2/5 ton of rubble.
Name 3 types of figurative language.
Simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, idiom, alliteration, onomatopoeia
Highlighting, underlining, and circling details in the questions as you read them.
What is 'Jail' the Details
This is what we call a short statement of the main points of a story.
What is main idea or central idea?
According to a recipe, each batch of pancake mix can make 12 pancakes. Kathy is making 3 batches for a brunch party. If each batch needs 7 12 cups of milk, how much milk does she need in total?
She needs 1 3/4 cups of milk in total.
Dexter worked hard and had a nicely decorated poster that showed off all of the diligent planning.
In this sentence, what does diligent mean?
required, silent, careful, timely
DAILY DOUBLE! WORTH 2X POINTS
What is careful.
What MUST you do before submitting your test?
What is going back and making sure you answered every question?
The lesson learned or the author's message is called.
What is the theme?
The farmer’s market opens for 2 1/5 hours in the morning and 3 2/3 hours in the afternoon. How long is the farmer’s market open in a day?
The farmer’s market is open 5 13/15 hours in a day.
Give an example of both a simile and a metaphor
Answers may vary
Name a type of breakfast to eat on the morning of a test day.
healthy breakfast, non sugary
Setting tells what two things?
Time and Place
On Saturday, Ashley planned to make pancakes for breakfast. To make 1 1/2 batches of pancakes, she needs 2 1/3 cups of flour. There are 5 1/4 cups of flour in the kitchen. How much flour was left after she made the pancakes?
2 11/12 cups of flour were left after she made the pancakes.