6th Grade
Name one story excerpt we read this year
Possible answers:
What is...
Walk Two Moons
The Treasure of Lemon Brown
Eleven
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Teenagers
Hatchet
The punctuation that ends a question
What is a question mark
Peter Piper picked a pack of pickled peppers is an example of...
What is alliteration
Correct the spelling...
were going to the mall
We're
What is a verb?
An action word
Give example of a simile
varies
What is a synonym for tumult?
Turbulence
What is a metaphor?
comparison of things without using like or as
Correct the spelling...
Where going to go to the mall. Were is it?
We're and where
True or false: an informative thesis statement should contain your opinion about the topic.
Give an example of a hyperbole
Answer Varies
What is a hook?
What point of view would an author use to talk directly to the audience?
Second
Fix the error.
They don't know how to was there hair.
their
What is one thing that qualifies as a proper noun?
Answers Vary - Person, Capitals, Cities, Organizations Etc.
Name ALL the common coordinating conjunctions
For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So
What is oxymoron?
When two opposite words are combined for emphasis
Fix the sentence...
Noah goes to cimarron middle school. He plays football soccer and volleyball.
Cimarron Middle School (proper nouns are capitalized)
Commas in between the sports
What is the correct spelling of sematary? (The place where bodies are buried)
Cemetery
Answers vary: The flower is as big as an elephant
This type of punctuation is used to separate two independent clauses while keeping them as one sentence.
What is a semicolon
This part of speech is used to describe an adjective or a verb.
What is an adverb?
-This is important because...
-An example of this is...
-For example...
-On the other hand...
What is the correct spelling of onomotopia?
Onomatopoeia
Name the correct order of sentences in a body paragraph.
Topic sentence, evidence, elaboration, transition.