Where do you normally find the main idea of a story?
Which of the following sentences contains both a complete subject and a complete predicate?
A. My friend ran.
B. Played Soccer
C. Went to school.
D. The dark forest.
A. My friend ran.
Text structure is how the author chooses to organize the text. Name 2 types of text structures.
- Cause and effect
- chronological order
- description
- Compare and contrast
Which suffix shows that an action is happening now?
-ing
Add a suffix to the end of the word
Loyal
LoyalTY
What are the three examples of an author's purpose?
Persuade, inform, entertain
What is a complete predicate? (pg. 44 )
contains an action or state of being verb
Text structure is how the author chooses to organize the text. What story did we read that that the author used the text structure Compare and Contrast?
Twins in Space.
Give me an example of a comparison using the words tastier and tastiest
The cupcake was tastier than the brownie. The cookie was the tastiest.
An example of a complete sentence is:
A. At the city park.
B. Susan is a good student.
C. My television program
B. Susan is a good student.
What is the main idea of a story?
What the story is MOSTLY about.
Example- Mr. Hill's class played a game.
What is the complete predicate in the sentence?
Played a game
What type of text structure is used mostly with biographies?
chronological order
Which of the following words contains a vowel team?
- lamp
- main
- winter
- recent
main
What does chronological order tell us?
- Events in which orders happen
What is the author's purpose in a biography?
Make this sentence complete:
My mother__________
- who is nice
- and my father
-left for a meeting.
Where can you find vocabulary words in a book?
Back of the book in a glossary.
In the sentence "I was mistaken for my cousin"
What does the word mistaken mean?
- correct in belief
- without care
-wrongly identified
- having the same appearance
-wrongly identified
Which 2 words has a consonant digraph?
- Vacation
-Shell
- pail
- chest
Shell
Chest
You might think that if you’ve seen one kind of eel, you’ve seen them all. That is simply not true. For example, consider the moray eel and the snipe eel. They are two very different eels.
What is the main idea?
The two eels are very different.
Which sentence is NOT a run on sentence?
A. Kim left early the ball game was over.
B. Carlos finished his report and went to the playground.
C. Cynthia and Lucy made soup Lucy's mom made the salad.
B. Carlos finished his report and went to the playground.
What text structure did the author use in the biography Barbed Wire Baseball?
Chronological Order
Which of the following word has A VCe Syllable pattern?
-friend
-float
-the
-lake
lake
What is the difference between an autobiography and a biography?
Autobiography is written by that person in first person POV and a biography is written by another person in third person POV.