Reading
What is the difference between a digraph and blend?
Digraph is two letters producing a new sound like /sh/, a blend is 2 or 3 letters squished together keeps their own sounds like /br/ and /sl/.
The person that writes a story and the person that draws the pictures are called
Author and illustrator
Give an example of an adjective.
Red, big, soft, pretty, etc. (something that describes)
Give 3 different vowels teams that produce a long /e/ sound.
ee, e-e, ea, ey
In what type of writing would you hear rhyming words?
Poems
Name 4 different text structures.
Cause/Effect
Sequence
Compare/contrast
Problem and Solution
What is one word to explain compare and one word to explain contrast?
Same and different
What are the main components of a story? How would you retell a story that you read?
Character and setting
Events
Plot
Name 4 different digraphs that you know
th, ch, sh, ph
What is the first paragraph in an essay called?
introduction
Name 3 errors in grammar in this sentence:
Dr. silva was very nice when I needed to get stiches
Silva capitalized
stitches spelled wrong
No period at the end of the sentence.
What can we read first before reading the story to help find the answers?
The questions
Name 3 different genres that we have studied this year.
Informational, narrative, poetry, narrative nonfiction, fables, folktakes, and myths as well multimedia like videos.
How do you spell the plural form of mouse?
Mice
In what type of essay will you likely hear make up information involving plot?
Narrative
What are some examples of text and graphic features? How do these features help you as a reader?
Text features present important parts of the story in a different way.
Text features: Punctuation, Print (Bold, Capital, Italic, large, Color, small
Graphic Features are visuals that help explains ideas in the text
Graphic Features: illustrations, diagrams, maps, and speech bubbles
Who is the person that tells the story? What different points of view can a story be told in?
The Narrator
First and Third. First, the narrator is a character sharing the story. Third, the narrator is an outside voice telling the story.
What is theme?
What is the difference between a prefix and suffix? Give and example of each a prefix and a suffix.
prefix changes the meaning of a root word by adding something to the beginning
suffix changes the meaning of a root word by adding something to the end of the word.
-ful and pre-
Dear _____,
a letter
Is this a fact or an opinion?
Opinion
What are quotation marks used for?
To show that someone is speaking.
What is the terms that goes with the questions " What is the text mostly about"
Main Idea
How do you spell the plural form of tooth?
teeth
All essays should have 3 main paragraphs, what are the names of those three paragraphs?
Introduction, body and conclusion