Vocabulary
Name a synonym for the word gigantic.
What is big, huge, large?
Is this a sentence?
lacey on the playground
What is NO!
How many 4th grade teachers do you have at SMM?
What is 2?
The most important sentence in a paragraph is the
What is Topic sentence of a story.
The ______________ seemed to shimmer when light hit it.
What is a ring, diamond, jewelery, water
Which would impress you the most? 1. Hearing a 2 year old count to 100 2. Watching a dog jump through a hoop. Explain why?
Your choice. Explain WHY???
The girl walked her dog.
1. sentence 2. fragment
What is a (1.) sentence?
Name your pet.
Who is Dice, Socks, or Nugget?
Which would be considered a huddle 1. Friends in a group deciding what game to play. or 2. A couple of girls coloring.
What is 1?
A made-up story that could happen in real life, like the "Case of the Gasping Garbage" is called?
What is Realistic Fiction?
Someone rang the doorbell, and Dice began to bark.
Explain the cause and effect in the example.
"Someone rang the doorbell" is the cause and "Dice began to bark" is the effect in the example.
What is the VERB or action word of this sentence?
1. Dawn looked everywhere for Nugget.
What is looked?
What is the capital of the state of Florida?
What is Tallahassee?
Why do you look at character traits in stories?
What is help you predict and understand a character's actions in the story.
A short way to retell the main ideas of a passage.
1. characters 2. summary
What is (2.) summary?
Make this one sentence. The cat drank the milk. The cat ate its food.
What is The cat drank its milk, and ate its food.
What are SMM's school colors?
What are BLUE and GOLD?
It was a sunny day in April. We were sitting by the pool and cooking outside in the backyard.
This paragraph mostly describes...
1. characters 2. setting
What is the (2.) setting?
What is SMM's mascot?
What is a MUSTANG?