4th Grade Text Evidence
What are these? " "
Quotation Marks
What does a sentence start and end with?
A capitalized letter and punctuation
What is a fake or imagined story called?
Fiction or narrative
What is a true or real story called?
Nonfiction or expository
What is a noun?
A person, place, or thing
What is text structure?
How a text is organized.
True or False: A direct quote from the text should have different words from the text.
False
Is "I think green beans taste like boogers." is an example of a fact or an opinion ?
Opinion
What are the 3 parts that every fictional story is broken into?
Beginning, middle, and end.
In order for a story to be nonfiction, the information has to be what?
True
Spell the word that means a mountain with hot lava inside that erupts
Volcano
Nonfiction or expository
What is a quote?
A sentence taken out of the text. Something someone has said.
What are 3 things you need to include when you're writing a story?
dialogue
beginning, middle and end
problem and solution
details
setting
characters
capitals and periods
What is the lesson or moral of a story called?
Theme
What are the 3 main parts of a nonfiction or expository text?
Introduction, body, and conclusion.
What is a verb?
An action word
This text structure includes a setting, characters, events, and theme.
Fiction or Narrative
Why do we use quotes in our essays?
To show text evidence that supports our answers.
What are 3 things you need to include when writing an ESSAY?
Restate the question using because text evidence or quote
explain your quotes
conclusion
quotation marks
capitals and periods
What does SETTING mean?
When and where a story takes place.
What is the opinion or thesis of a story?
It's what an author is trying to prove
What are the word parts added to the beginning and end of root words to change their meaning called?
Prefixes and suffixes
This text structure explains what happened and then talks about the results that follow.
Cause and Effect
What is Text Evidence?
A quote taken out of a text that supports your answer.
Correct the following text. There are 9 errors.
at first i dident realize that the athor was taking about mr smith
At first I didn't realize that the author was talking about Mr. Smith.
What is dialogue?
When characters talk in a story.
Read the following excerpt. What is the author's point of view about Bt corn?
Planting Bt corn has increased both profit and productivity on my farm and farms around the world... The savings to farmers are passed on to people who buy the corn.
The author's point of view is the Bt corn is GOOD.
What is an adjective?
A describing word
What is this text's structure
Outside the glass, the water evaporates and spreads throughout the room as vapor. In time, the drops disappear. Inside the glass, water also evaporates, but the vapor is trapped.
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