Reading #1
A story that is imaginary, invented, or untrue
What is fiction?
Person, Place, or Thing
What is a Noun?
Only one of something or someone.
A. Singular
B. Plural
What is A. Singular?
More than one thing or multiple people?
A. Singular
B. Plural
What is B. Plural?
The lines that float in the air at the beginning and end of someone speaking in a story
What are Quotation Marks?
What the story is about.
*Hint* The "idea" the author had to write about.
What is Main Idea?
Where a story happens
What is the Setting?
What is it called when we call someone by......He, Him, She, Her, They, Them
What is a Pronoun?
A word or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same thing as another word?
What is a synonym?
A word or phrase that means exactly the opposite.
What is an Antonym?
Using "Like" or "as" .
Example: "The flower smelled as sweet as a peach."
What is a Simile?
Ways to describe a character is a story.
Example: The boy had brown hair, green eyes, and a nice smile. He was always kind to his friends, and loved to tell stories.
What are Character Traits?
Making a guess of what is going to happen next in a story
What is an inference?
What is a prediction?
What happens First, Next, Then, and Last in a story
What is the Sequence of Events?
When a story is written on something true.
Example: Books about animals
What are informational books/stories?
Something that can be verified or proven true VS. Something based on your personal belief
What is Fact Vs. Opinion?
When you find facts that are alike and different between 2 things
What is Compare and Contrast?
The reason why something happen, and then the result of something that happened.
Example: Because I watered the plant, it grew bigger.
What is Cause and Effect?
Adding a new beginning to a base word, to change the meaning of the base word.
Example: Add "Mis" to the word "take" to make a new word "Mistake"
What is a prefix?
Adding an ending to a base word, to make the base word with a different meaning
Example: Put "able" and the end of the base word "bend" to make the new word "Bendable"
What is a suffix?
Stories that include animals and objects that act like people, and most of these have a message they teach to the reader
What are Fables and Myths?
When the author is telling the story from their point of view
Example: I woke up this morning to the sun shining in the window. My alarm was ringing and I had to get ready for school.
What is First-Person?
When the author is telling the story from an outsider's point of view. They are not a character in the story.
Example: Mary had to ride her bike to school with her sister Sarah. She really liked riding her shiny red bike to school.
What is Third-Person?
The person telling the story
What is a Narrator?
These are "Clues" that the author gives to help the reader find the actual meaning of a difficult word in a sentence.
What are Context Clues?