3rd Grade
ELA 1
ELA 1
Fact or opinion: Asparagus is the most delicious vegetable ever.
Opinion
You use these around text evidence or details from a text.
What are quotation marks?
The suffix -er means what?
A person who does, makes or practices.
What is the purpose of a topic sentence in a paragraph?
It explains what your paragraph will be about so your readers get an idea of what they're about to read.
What is figurative language?
Saying one thing but meaning another.
If a text uses the words "he", "she", or "they" to tell a story.
- is the narrator in the story or out of the story?
When is the narrator out of the story?
Give an example of a verb
What is run, skip, walk, jump, etc?
This text structure is when an author says how things are the same and how they are different.
What is compare and contrast?
however, but, as a result, because, due to
What text structure is this?
What are the signal words for cause and effect?
Can you explain the difference between a fiction and a nonfiction text?
Fiction: Imagination/not real
Nonfiction: Facts/based on real events
These are hints, synonyms, antonyms, or phrases in a sentence around a single word.
What are context clues?
Write a simile.
Answers may vary
If the prefix -un goes in the word unavailable-what does that mean?
What is, not able to do something
What part of speech is "running?"
A verb
What part of speech is "quickly?"
Adverb
The theme of this paragraph?
Sadie was kicking a soccer ball in the house and broke her mom's expensive vase. The vase was shattered into a million pieces. She went to her mom and told her what she had done even though she knew she'd be punished.
What is honesty?
synonym of hard
difficult
The text structure that puts events in order is known as...
(What do we call it when we put something in order)
What is a sequence or chronological order?
Explain the difference between fact and opinion.
Fact: Information stated from proven evidence.
Opinion: How someone personally feels.
You can find it in the beginning or the end. Sometimes it is in your own words and sometimes not.
What is the main idea?
When I go back to the story to find the proof of my answer to a question, I am using...
antonym of excited
nervous
It was raining cats and dogs. The idiom "raining cats and dogs" means
What is it's raining really hard?
"The stars are like diamonds in the sky". Is it a metaphor or simile
simile
This phrase does not mean exactly what it says.
Example: cold feet
What is an idiom?