General
"the moral or lesson I learned from the story"
What is theme?
What are stanzas and where will you find them?
A group of lines, in a poem.
Please put your books over ______
What is there?
Where should you look to find why an event happened (the cause)?
Read what was happening right before the event happened
The girl saved all her money. It was exactly what she wanted. She imagined gliding down the road pedaling effortlessly. She finally had enough money to make her dream come true. What was her dream?
What is to buy a bike?
What are common themes?
Themes such as perseverance, honesty, kindness, nature.
stage directions
That is not our car; it is ______
What is a theirs
What are text features?
Brittany's mom walks into the kitchen wearing her sun hat and a pair of old shoes. “Those vegetable plants are growing by leaps and bounds!” she exclaims to Brittany, as she takes off a dirty glove and wipes a smudge of dirt off her face.
What is the garden?
You use explicit details from the text plus your background knowledge to make one of these. Sometimes, the theme is one because it is not actually stated in the story.
What is inference?
What is text structure?
The way the text is organized or put together.
_______coming over to visit on Saturday.
They're
How do you answer a question about a text feature?
Compare every answer choice to the text feature until you find a match.
Hudson hurried out of the house so he wasn't late for work. He wore overalls and carried a toolbox with wrenches in it. He hopped in his truck and drove off. The sign on his truck said, “Pipe Masters.”
What is a plumber?
How can you tell if a text has a chronological text structure?
You will see time words such as dates, times, days of the week, or sequence words such as first, next, then, finally.
What are the 5 text structures?
cause and effect, problem/solution, sequence or chronological, description, compare and contrast
_______ are 10 more days until my birthday
What is there?
How do you answer a question about a vocabulary word?
have quite an exciting job that allows me to work with lots of exotic animals. I work hard from the early morning to the end of the day because a lot of critters depend on me. I am in charge of feeding animals, cleaning habitats, and making sure all the animals are happy and healthy.
What is a zookeeper?
Why can "Uncle Romie is a good man," NOT be the theme of the story?
A theme must be universal, not about a specific story
To retell the most important events from the beginning, middle, and end
What is to summarize?
____________house is much bigger than ours.
What is their?
What is the difference between first-person and third-person points of view?
First-person is when a character in the story is telling it. Third-person is when someone outside the story is narrating it.
Our teacher did not greet us at the door as usual. She was at her desk with her head in her hands. She was yawning and holding a cup of coffee.
What is the teacher is tired or not feeling well?