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?
What is author's purpose? What is author's message?
Purpose- Why
Message-Lesson
How the author feels about a topic is known as...
What is the author's point of view or perspective?
What is the name of the person who writes the story?
What time should you get to school on test days?
No later than 8:00am
This figurative language is being used in this sentence “The boy was like a lion because he was so courageous”
What is a Simile?
What sport does Ms. Treadwell coach?
Cheerleading
This is a short version of the story that includes just the important details; retelling a shorter version of the story
What is the summary?
The vocabulary words listed in the back of the book is called?
What is a Glossary
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?
Daily Double:
List as many conjunctions as you can!
and, for, so, but, although, because, unless
What text structure would I use when teaching someone how to bake a cake; giving directions
Sequence/Steps - Instructional texts
The author wants to teach us a lesson. This is called what?
What is theme.
The multiple choice questions on a test are the fastest part and you should rush through it. True or False?
False. Take your time!
What is an inference?
Taking what we already know and adding it to information from the text
What is white and black and read all over?
A newspaper
When the story is told from the perspective of the narrator, using words like "I" or "me"
What is first person?
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
What is type of sentence is this?
Pay attention when the teacher is talking!
Imperative
What does R.A.C.E. stand for?
Restate the question, Answer the question, Cite information, Explain your answer
Fiction means...
A 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?
In this game, you can build in wood, brick, or metal. You have a maximum of 100 health and 100 shield.
What is Fortnite?
The parts of a drama that let the actors/cast know what to do.
Stage directions
What the story is mainly about?
Main idea
How many sentences should you have in a writing prompt for each paragraph?
What is 3-5 sentences?
What is verb
Describes an action or state of being
Is a tomato a fruit or vegetable?
Fruit
What is the tone of a story? Tone helps us determine of the characters...
the feeling/mood of the story; feelings
Name 3 kinds of verbs
linking verbs, helping verbs, action verbs
What process should you use when answering multiple-choice questions?
Process Of Elimination.
What is the main topic or focus of a text or passage?
What is main idea or central idea?
What two colors make blue.
Green and Yellow.
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?
What MUST you do before submitting your test?
What is going back and making sure you answered every question?
What does the theme tell you?
The lesson learned or the author's message
What is the last day of school?
May 23rd
What are the lines in a poem called?
Stanzas
What is a simile?
A comparison using like or as
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
Name all of your 5th grade teachers
Ms. Treadwell and Ms. Black
What are the 4 kinds of essays/writing we can see on TCAP?
opinionative, argumentative, explanatory/informational, and narrative writing