POV
What is Point of View?
Who is telling the story.
What is Main Idea?
What the story is mostly about.
“Mrs. Johnson is my favorite teacher,”
Maria told her mother. “I really enjoy the lessons in her class.”
In this paragraph, the word enjoy means —
A like
B hear
C notice
D save
A. Like
The dog ran down the street.
What is the verb in the sentence?
Ran
His fur shined black as night.
What is this an example of?
Simile
What are the 3 types of POV?
1st person
2nd person
3rd person
When I was in the third grade, I made a really big mistake. My teacher assigned a spelling test, but I decided I would play video games all night instead of studying. That wasn't the biggest mistake I made, though. What I did after that was worse!
When my teacher, Miss Crabtree, told us to clear our desks for the test, I took my word list and put it on top of my books inside my desk where I could see it. Miss Crabtree started calling out the words and I copied each of them from my word list. Suddenly, Miss Crabtree noticed what I was doing. She walked over to my desk and took my word list from me. She told me she wanted to see me after class. I knew I was in trouble then! I left class quickly that day before Miss Crabtree could talk to me about it.
By the time I got home, I had forgotten all about the spelling test. I was watching television when the telephone rang. It was Miss Crabtree! She told my mother what happened in class. Boy was she mad! She took away my video games and wouldn’t let me go anywhere or do anything fun for a whole month. Plus, I had to study and retake the spelling test. So, I guess what they say really is true - cheaters never win!
The main idea of this story is—
A. Miss Crabtree is a really good teacher
B. Cheating on a test is a horrible mistake
C. My mother gets mad when I get in trouble at school
D. I like to play video games
B. Cheating on a test is a horrible mistake
Katie said that Kevin was being dishonest when he said he could hold his breath for 20 minutes.
What does Katie mean by dishonest?
A. Kevin is being honest.
B. Kevin is not telling the truth.
C. Kevin is very serious.
D. Kevin thinks he is a dolphin.
B. Kevin is not telling the truth.
What are the nouns in the following sentence?
Rex fell out the window.
Rex.
Window.
I've been working like a dog.
What type of figurative language is this an example of?
Simile
With a walk into his closet, his thoughts took him down a lonesome desert road, far, far away in Old Mexico.
Skippyjon Jones by J. Schachner
What point of view is this passage told from?
Third Person
The Ant and the Dove
A Dove saw an Ant fall into a river. The Ant struggled to reach the shore. In pity, the Dove dropped a blade of straw close beside it. Hanging on to the straw, the Ant floated safely to shore.
Soon after, the Ant saw a man getting ready to kill the Dove with a stone. But just as he threw the stone, the Ant stung him in the heel. The pain made the man miss, and the startled Dove flew to safety in a distant forest.
A kindness is never wasted.
Why did the Ant sting the man’s heel?
A.the Ant was afraid the man would try to step him after he killed the Dove
B.the Ant was tired and cranky after swimming to shore and took it out on the man
C. the Ant wanted to help the Dove because the Dove had been kind to the Ant
D. the Ant was hungry, so he decided to take a bite out of the man’s heel
C. the Ant wanted to help the Dove because the Dove had been kind to the Ant.
I don’t make cookies very well, so I usually buy mine prebaked.
In which word is the prefix pre used the same way as in prebaked?
A. preacher
B. pretty
C. pretest
D. pretzel
C. pretest
What is the adjective in the following sentence?
Rex would like to eat a giant hamburger.
Giant
The cat was a shadow when it stalked its prey.
What type of figurative language is this an example of?
Metaphor
I'm twelve years old. Until a few months ago, I was a boarding student at Yancy Academy, a private school for troubled kids in upstate New York.
The Lightning Thief by R. Riordan
What point of view is this written from?
First Person
One Halloween I dressed up as a clown. My mother bought me a big red nose made out of foam to wear, but I didn't like it. I decided to sneak into her makeup and use her red lipstick instead. I colored my whole nose red and went trick-or-treating. When I got home later that night, I tried to rub the lipstick off, but all I did was make my nose pink! I couldn't get all of the lipstick off. I didn't want my mother to know what I had done, so I went to bed, hoping the lipstick would wear off by morning. It didn't. When my mother woke me up for school, the first thing she saw was my bright pink nose. I thought I was in trouble for sure, but she just laughed and told me to use her cold cream to get it all off. I bet I never do that again, though!
What is this story mostly about?
A. I dressed up as a clown one Halloween.
B. I don’t like the big foam noses that go with clown costumes.
C. You can use cold cream to take lipstick off.
D. I put lipstick on my nose without permission, and I couldn’t get it off.
D. I put lipstick on my nose without permission, and I couldn't get it off.
Read the following sentence.
I searched the _____ house for my brother, but he was nowhere to be _____.
Which pair of words makes the sentence correct?
A. hole, seen
B. whole, scene
C. whole, seen
D. hole, scene
C. whole, seen
The pink dress floated lazily on the old clothesline.
What are the adjectives in the sentence?
Pink.
Old.
When it was his turn to bat, he felt like he had butterflies in his stomach.
What type of figurative language is this an example of?
Idiom
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
Mahatma Gandhi
What point of view is this written from?
Third Person
Swing
Swing low,
Swing high.
Until your tiptoes
Touch the sky.
Swing high,
Swing low.
Swing where grownups
Cannot go.
What is this poem mostly about?
A. touching the sky
B. riding on a swing
C. standing on tiptoe
D. swinging your arms
B. Riding on a swing
Read the following sentence:
You can’t _____ that heavy turnip on the _____ scale
because it would break it!
Which pair of words makes the sentence correct?
A. way, knew
B. weigh, knew
C. way, new
D. weigh, new
D. weigh, new
The cat and dog chased each other all over the playground and field.
What is the compound subject in this sentence?
Cat.
Dog.
What type of figurative language is demonstrated in the following sentence?
"The sun and the moon played hide and seek"
Personification