5th Grade ELA Review
What are the people in stories referred to as?
What are....characters?
This strategy means you must find a sentence or detail in the passage that supports your answer.
What is text evidence?
This is when two words means the same thing
What is a synonym?
What is author's purpose? What is author's theme?
Purpose- Why/Reason
Theme-Lesson/Message/Moral
How the author feels about a topic is known as...
What is the tone?
What is the name of the person who writes the story?
what is the author
This strategy involves crossing out answer choices you know are incorrect to improve your chances.
What is slash the trash?
This figurative language is being used in this sentence “The boy was like a lion because he was so courageous”
What is a Simile?
Number of continents in the world
What is 7?
This is a short version of the story that includes just the important details.
What is the summary?
The vocabulary words listed in the back of the book is called?
What is a Glossary
This strategy involves taking notes about the question and answer choices.
What is a "T" Chart?
This is what you call a book that talks about a person’s life from beginning to end
What is an Biography?
Daily Double:
What type of figurative language is the following sentence and what is the literal meaning?
"My brother is a couch potato."
Metaphor
Comparing how lazy the brother is to a vegetable that can't move
What text structure would I use when teaching someone how to bake a cake.
What is....Sequence/Steps/Chronological
What the author is trying to teach you?
What is theme.
This strategy involves looking at the questions before reading the passage.
What is previewing the questions?
What do sensory details include?
What is details that help you see, hear, smell, taste and feel
What inference can you make about the following statement?
"Maria walked into the kitchen, rubbed her eyes, and reached for the coffee pot."
1. She is tired.
2. She relies on caffeine.
3. It is likely morning.
When the story is told from the perspective of the narrator, using words like "I" or "me"
What is first person?
Non-fiction means...
What is...The story is true
This strategy involves restating the question in your own words before answering.
What is putting it in your own words?
DAILY DOUBLE!! This is what you call a story written about a historical event that includes real events and people.
What is historical fiction?
What is the preposition in the sentence below.
Every year, we dance with my friends near the big pond.
Preposition: Near
A picture with labels is called what in a nonfiction book?
What is a diagram.
Fiction means...
What is....A story is not real
These should be underlined in both the question and the passage to help you focus.
What are keywords?
This is a piece of literature that is based on people, events and worlds that are not true
What is Fiction?
I have a spine, but no bones. I have sheets, but no bed. I have leaves, but no branches. You can tell me stories, but I cannot speak. What am I?
What is a book?
The diagram used to compare and contrast two or more ideas.
What is a venn diagram?
What the text is mainly about?
What is....Main idea
This helps you figure out the meaning of unknown words using nearby sentences.
What are context clues?
What are concrete details?
What are words that give your mind a solid image?
I turn sunlight into food, I'm not a chef but what I do is good. In leaves, I take hold, for green plants of old. What am I?
What is Photosynthesis.
What is the last element of the plot element chart?
What is....resolution
Name 3 character traits
What is...answers may vary
These words (like “however” and “therefore”) signal important changes or ideas in a text.
What are transition words?
This is what we call a short statement of the main points of a story.
What is main idea or central idea?
I roar from the ground, ash thrown high; lava is my blood, and smoke fills the sky. What am I?
What is a Volcano.
To describe how things are alike and how they are different
What is compare and contrast?
How the author feels about a topic is known as...
What is the author's point of view or perspective?
This helps your mind reset.
What is taking a break?
What does the theme tell you?
What is....The lesson learned or the author's message
I dance with words in rhythms that flow, where rhymes can match and feelings show. What am I?
What is Poetry.
What are the paragraphs in a poem called? and what are the sentences called?
What is....Stanzas and Lines
Give an example of both a simile and a metaphor
Answers may vary
This step helps reduce mistakes by making sure your answer matches the question.
What is checking your answer with the question?
Setting tells what two things?
What is.....Time and Place
What is inferencing?
What is.....Use what you already know and what the text says to make an educated guess about the text.
What is a claim?
What is argument