Reading 5th Grade
The location and time of a story
What is the setting?
The parts of a drama that let the actors/cast know what to do.
Stage directions
"He was as quiet as a mouse" is an example of ___.
What is simile?
What is an adverb? Provide an example!
A word that describes the verb or action.
What is Bruce's FULL NAME?!
What is Bruce Tiberius Wayne
What the author is trying to teach you or the lesson of the story?
What is theme.
This is a short version of the story that includes just the important details.
What is the summary?
"The bright orange walls screamed at her as she walked into the room." is an example of what type of figurative language?
What is personification?
What is wrong with this sentence?
He walked to the store and buy some milk.
The verb tenses don't agree - walked is past tense and buy is present tense.
Using context clues, what does the word feeble mean in the sentence below.
Even though she is feeble, the old lady still walks a mile every day.
without strength or weak
The vocabulary words listed in the back of the book is called?
Glossary
What text structure would I use when teaching someone how to bake a cake.
Sequence/Steps/Chronological
What is the ending of a story called?
resolution
Boom! Crack! Pop! Buzz
What is an onomatopoeia?
What is an author's point? What is a counter-point?
Point is the argument and Counter-point is the opposite opinion of the first author's claim.
What the story is mainly about?
Central or Main idea
When the story is told from the perspective of the narrator, using words like "I" or "me"
What is first person?
To describe how things are alike and how they are different
What is compare and contrast?
What are the paragraphs in a poem called? and what are the sentences called?
Stanzas and Lines
A book about a person written by someone else.
biography
How the author feels about a topic is known as...
What is the author's point of view or perspective?
Parts of the paragraph that give evidence or additional parts to the main idea?
What is a supporting details.
Which figurative language is the following sentence?
"She is a tornado when she gets angry!"
What is metaphor?
What is an adjective? Provide an example!
A word that describes a noun
What is the preposition in the sentence below.
Every year, we dance with my friends near the big pond.
Preposition: Near