Parts of Speech
A person, a place or a thing.
What is a noun?
Name all the nouns in this sentence:
The big brown dog jumped quickly on the fluffy bed.
What is dog and bed?
The biggest city in Illinois.
What is Chicago?
A shorter version of a story put in your own words.
What is a summary?
The person who writes a piece of literature.
What is an author?
A word that describes an action.
What is a verb?
Name all the verbs in this sentence:
The big brown dog jumped quickly on the fluffy bed.
What is jumped?
Illinois' state capital.
What is Springfield?
The moral/lesson or what the story is trying to teach you?
What is the Theme or Central Message?
The person or animal the story is mostly about.
What is the main character?
A word that describes something.
What is an adjective?
Name all the adjectives in this sentence:
The big brown dog jumped quickly on the fluffy bed.
What is big, brown, and fluffy?
The county Rockford is in.
What is Winnebago?
The point of the story or what it is mostly about.
What is Main Idea?
The time and where a story takes place.
What is the setting?
Words that describe verbs, adjectives, and adverbs and answer the questions how and when.
What is a Adverb?
Name all the adverbs in this sentence:
The big brown dog jumped quickly on the fluffy bed.
The capital of the United States of America.
What is Washington D.C.?
How a character acts, thinks, and feels; who they are on the inside.
What are Character Traits?
Literature especially short stories ad novels, that describes imaginary events and people.
What is fiction?
I, me, we, you, he, she, yours, us, who, and whom.
What are examples of pronouns?
Mrs. Renaud will let you know how you did!
The third planet from our sun.
What is Earth?
A conclusion or opinion that you are able to form using known facts or evidence as well as your prior knowledge.
What is an Inference?
Writing that is based on facts, real events and real people, such as a biography or history.
What is non-fiction or informational text?