Story Elements
4th Grade NSCAS
Reading
4TH Grade Grammar
100

This is when/where the story takes place.

The setting

100

You should complete the NSCAS as fast as possible. True or False??

False: It is more important to do your best, take your time, and use your strategies.

100

The message, lesson, or moral that the author wants you to take away from the story.

What is theme.

100

What part of speech are a person, place, thing, or idea?

noun

200
The follow sentence uses what type of point of view?


You need to load the dishwasher when you get home. If you do not do this you might not be able to play video games with friends.

2nd person point of view

200

You should wait for directions from your teacher, follow the prompts, and not get ahead of the teacher when they are speaking. True or False?

True: You do not click ahead, work ahead, etc. You should listen to directions and follow along.

200

If an author's writing to persuade, inform, entertain, explain or describe it is called?

Author's purpose

200

This part of speech is an action word.

A verb 

300

The author's purpose of a fictional text is to 

entertain, tell a story

300
If I come to a passage that is confusing what is one strategy that you can use?

Reread the text

300

Can you use pictures and captions to help you answer questions from a selection?

Yes!

300

What are the adjectives in the following sentence.

Ex:  The kind girl played with the tiny cat.

kind and tiny

400

What point of view is a text that uses: I, me, my, we, us

First Person Point of View

400
What is a positive/growth mindset?

what is to believe in yourself and reframe your brain. "I don't know it YET.."

400

If you cannot determine the meaning of a word what is a strategy you can use?

Use context clues

400

A compound sentence is when two complete sentences are combined using a coordinating conjunction (and, so, but) and what else? 

a comma 

500

Words that have the same or similar meaning are called?

Synonyms

500

When finished what should I do?

Review my questions, Submit my work, move my iPad, and read. 

500

When you read, 

"In the next two selections..."

What does this mean on a test?

There is a paired passage.  Make sure your questions match the story you are reading.

500

These phrases are examples of what type of figurative language?

The wind howled at night. The book was so popular it flew off the shelves. The last piece of pie was calling my name.

Personification - giving human qualities to things and ideas that are not humans.

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