Vocabulary
Effect = our _____.
What; why.
What type of word describes action?
Verbs!
What do we add to the end of most verbs to make them past-tense verbs?
Verb + ed
What kind of sentence has 1 subject and 1 predicate?
A simple sentence
Which two words do we always capitalize in a title?
The first and last word!
The phrase "break a leg," is an example of what type of language?
Nonliteral language.
What word describes a person, place, thing, or animal?
A noun
What tense uses the word will before the verb?
Future tense.
The subject of a sentence tells us ________.
The predicate tells us ______.
Who or what the sentence is about.
What the subject does or is.
When writing, we must capitalize the titles of certain forms of media. For example, we must capitalize the titles of books when they appear in our writing.
What other types of media should we capitalize the title of? Give at least two examples that are not books.
E.g., magazine, newspaper, movie, and podcast titles.
What are clue words?
Why do we need to find text evidence?
Clue words help us determine (or figure out) the meaning of unfamiliar or tricky words and paragraphs.
We need to go back into the passage to find text evidence to prove that our thinking is correct and to help us understand how and why our thinking got off track.
What word takes the place of a noun in a sentence?
Give at least one example.
A pronoun
E.g.: he, I, ours
Fill in the blanks:
Present tense means action that ____.
Past tense means action that _______.
Future tense describes action that ______.
is happening now.
happened in the past.
will happen later.
What is the purpose of coordinating conjunctions in sentence structure? (What do coordinating conjunctions do?)
What are the four coordinating conjunctions we learned?
To join together words, groups of words, and sentences into one thought.
But, So, And, Or
Why do we need to capitalize words in a title?
For clarity, so our readers understand which words are part of the title and which are not.
We look for signal words to help us identify _____ in a passage.
Choose one of the following to receive points:
1) Use a signal word to write a sentence with a cause-and-effect relationship.
2) What are the signal words?
Cause and effect relationships.
If the students are engaged and working hard, then the teachers are happy.
If/then, so, because, since, as a result of...
Name the three types of verbs and give an example of each.
What is the past tense form of eat when using have, had, or has?
Eaten
What type of sentence combines two simple sentences?
A compound sentence
Which words should we not capitalize in a title, unless they are the first or last word? Give at least one example.
Unimportant words; short words; words that are not verbs, nouns, adverbs, or adjectives.
Tell us what Point of View means in your own words!
POV is how a character is experiencing a story (what and how they feel) and how they are communicating their experience to the reader.
Ms. Hicks and Ms. A taught their amazing students English.
What type of word is underlined? What type of word is bolded?
A (possessive) pronoun. A verb.
What rule would we use to turn carry into a past-tense verb?
Change the y to an i, and add -ed.
What do we need to look for to identify a compound sentence?
Two simple sentences joined with a coordinating conjunction, and a comma before the conjunction.
Capitalize this title: the search for the hidden treasure
The Search for the Hidden Treasure