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What do you do with your voice when you see an exclamation mark?
Your voice goes up or down.
What is a noun? Give an example.
A noun is a person, place, thing, animal or idea.
Example: dog, pencil, school, teacher etc..
What type of sentence gets a period? Give an example.
A telling sentence.
I went to the movies yesterday.
What tense is this verb (ran)?
Past tense
When is Black History Month?
February
What else can informational text be called?
Non-Fiction
What is the difference between a common noun and a proper noun? Give an example.
A common noun is a regular noun (person, place, thing, or animal). Example: dog, cat, park, store.
A Proper noun is the specific name of a (person, place, thing, or animal). Example: German Shepard, Calico, Bear Creek Park, Target.
What type of sentence gets a question mark? Give an example.
A question.
Where are you going?
What sound does Soft C and Hard C make? Give an example of each.
Soft C as in cereal or celery.
Hard C as is cake or cookie.
When is Women's History Month?
March
What is a synonym?
What is an antonym?
Give examples of each.
Same chilly=cold
Different up-down
What is the difference between a Singular and a Plural noun and give an example of each.
Singular means one. I have a dog.
Plural means more than one. I have dogs.
What elements are needed when writing a How-To?
Ingredients or materials and step by step directions.
What is the prepositional phrase in each sentence?
The sun rose over the mountain.
I went to the store.
Over the mountain.
To the store.
What does it mean to predict?
Predicting is making a guess.
Name at least 2 Graphic Features and 2 text features tell how each one helps you.
Real pictures, Maps, Diagrams, etc...
Table of Contents, Bold words, Index, etc...
What is a Contraction and give an example.
A contraction is a shortened form or two words.
I am=I'm
She is=she's
I have=I've
When would you use a comma?
After a series/list of events.
Example: I went to the lake, swam, fished, and played hide and seek.
What is preposition? Give an example
A preposition tells the position of a noun or pronoun.
Example: The bottle was next to his chair.
She was sitting between two bears.
The fly was next to his face.
What's the difference between editing and revising?
Editing is correcting mistakes in a story.
Revising is making a story better.
What is the difference between a folktale, fable, and fairytale?
A Folktale is a story that has been passed from generation to generation.
A Fable is a story that has animals in it that act like humans.
A Fairytale is magical or make believe. It normally has prince/princesses, etc...
What is a compound word? Give an example.
You have two words and you put them together to make one new word.
mail+box= mailbox
cup+cake=cupcake
sea+shell=seashell
What does SWAG stand for in sentence writing?
Start with a capital
Who or what something does or is.
A verb is telling what they are or do.
Gets ending punctuation.
What are the 5 digraphs and give an example of each.
ch-chair
ph-phone
sh-shine
wh-whale
th-think
Who are some Famous African Americans we learned about? What were they famous for? Name at least two.
Except possible answers.