GRAMMAR 1
What does every sentence have to start with?
A capital letter
A main idea of a story is...
The message that the author wants to convey.
What is a noun?
A person, place, or thing.
What kind of text/story features a made-up tale with imaginary or fantastical creatures and sometimes far away places?
Fantasy
What is the plural of the word child?
children
The name of a book is called the ____.
The title!
What is a verb?
An action word
What kind of text features a made-up story with events that could happen in real life?
Realistic Fiction
The prefix for the word "unkind" is?
Un-
What do we call the person who writes a book?
The author!
What is an pronoun?
A word that replaces a noun
What kind of text features information and facts?
Informational/Expository Text
What kind of nouns are always capitalized?
Proper nouns (a person's name, name of a place, very important things)
The people in a story are called the ____.
Characters
What is a contraction?
Two words put together with an apostrophe that takes place of some of the letters.
What kind of text features a story about a real person's life written by someone else?
Biography
What is a synonym?
A word that has a similar or identical meaning to another word.
What does the setting of a story tell us?
Where and when a story takes place
What are the three types of punctuation that can be at the end of a sentence?
Period
Exclamation mark
Question mark
What kind of text features rhyming words, repitition, and express feelings and thoughts?
Poetry