Grammar
This is the action that a subject does in a sentence.
What is a verb?
What is the thinking step for Cause?
What happened?
What is the thinking step for Main Idea?
What does the author want us to learn about...?
Read the question and then reread the passage.
What is a simile?
A comparison between two or more objects using like or as.
This kind of word describes a noun.
What is an adjective?
What is the thinking step for Effect?
What is the result?
What is main idea?
What the story is mostly about or what the author wants us to learn.
What does the E in RELAX stand for?
Examine every answer choice.
What is a metaphor?
A comparison between two more things.
This type of word describes a verb, usually tells you how you do something.
Example: I quickly moved away from the door.
What is an adverb?
What is the third thinking step for Cause and Effect?
Why did it happen?/How is it all connected?
What is the main idea of the paragraph below?
It is often said that lightning never strikes twice in the same place, but this isn’t true. Go ask the forest rangers. Rangers who spend their summers as fire-fighters will tell you that every thundershower brings several bolts of lightning to their lookout stations.
It is often said that lightning never strikes twice in the same place, but this isn’t true.
What does the L in RELAX stand for?
Label your answers in the passage.
Is this a simile or a metaphor?
Mrs. B is crazy like a fox.
Simile
This kind of word has two small words put together, to change their meaning.
Example: Baseball
What is a compound word?
What is the cause in the paragraph below?
Mrs. B was out shopping for Christmas. She wanted to buy Chance a new cat toy. When at the register to buy him a new toy, Mrs. B saw that she left her wallet at home! Mrs. B had to put the toy back and went home without a new toy.
Mrs. B lost her wallet.
What does the A in RELAX stand for?
Always check your work.
What are the two things being compared?
Chance is as brave as a lion.
Chance and lion.
You use this punctuation to cite evidence/details from a text.
What is quotation marks?
What is the effect for the paragraph below?
Mrs. B was out shopping for Christmas. She wanted to buy Chance a new cat toy. When at the register to buy him a new toy, Mrs. B saw that she left her wallet at home! Mrs. B had to put the toy back and went home without a new toy.
Mrs. B went home without a new toy for Chance.
What does the X in RELAX stand for?
X out answers that cannot possibly be correct.
What are the two things being compared?
The falling snowflakes are dancers.
Snowflakes and dancers