4th Grade Reading
What is theme?
The moral or the lesson of the story.
What are these: " "
Quotation marks
What part of speech is the Italic word?
She quickly ran up the stairs.
Adverb
What is a stanza?
A group of lines in a poem
(a paragraph of a poem)
What does conclusion mean?
the ending of a story
Is "I think green beans taste terrible" an example of a fact or an opinion?
Opinion
What part of speech is the Italic word?
The pepperoni pizza was my favorite.
This is an example of what poetic device?
The cat sat on the mat
What does setting mean?
where and when the story takes place
What is a context clue?
Hints or clues found within a passage that can help the reader to understand the meaning(s) of new words.
What part of speech is the Italic word?
She wrote a story about her family.
verb
What is this an example of?
I was as happy as a clam
Simile
What does Main Idea mean?
What is a verb?
an action word
Are the words listed synonyms or antonyms?
dark and light
antonyms
What poetic device is this an example of?
Wally walrus watches whales in the water.
Alliteration
What is a inference?
A guess using evidence from the text and your background knowledge or schema.
Fix this sentence
julie asked are we going to the zoo the store or the mall
Julie asked, "Are we going to the zoo, the store, or the mall?"
Choose the correct word to complete the sentence
There,They're or Their going to the store.
They're
What poetic device is this an example of?
The classroom was a zoo
Metaphor
What do you call an alphabetical list of key names and terms used in a book? (hint it is located in the very back of a book)
An index
What is it called when you put a space at the start of a new paragraph?
indent
What do we call two words being combined into one word using an apostrophe to stand for the missing letters.
contraction
What are the words buzz, boom, splash examples of?
Onomatopoeia