Reading 5th Grade
The location and time of a story
What is the setting?
The parts of a drama that let the actors/cast know what to do.
Stage directions
"He was as quiet as a mouse" is an example of ___.
What is simile?
What figurative language is expressed in the following sentence:
I have told you a million times!
Hyperbole
What is author's purpose? What is author's message?
Purpose- Why
Message-Lesson
What the author is trying to teach you?
What is theme.
This is a short version of the story that includes just the important details.
What is the summary?
"The bright orange walls screamed at her as she walked into the room." is an example of what type of figurative language?
What is personification?
What is wrong with this sentence?
He walked to the store and buy some milk.
The verb tenses don't agree - walked is past tense and buy is present tense.
Using context clues, what does the word feeble mean in the sentence below.
Even though she is feeble, the old lady still walks a mile every day.
without strength or weak
The vocabulary words listed in the back of the book is called?
Glossary
What text structure would I use when teaching someone how to bake a cake.
Sequence
What is the ending of a story called?
resolution
Boom, crack, buzz
What is claim? What is a counter-claim? Provide Example.
Claim is the argument and Counterclaim is the opposite opinion of the claim.
What the story is mainly about?
Central or Main idea
When the story is told from the perspective of the narrator, using words like "I" or "me"
What is first person?
To describe how things are alike and how they are different
What is compare and contrast?
A book about a person written by someone else.
biography
How the author feels about a topic is known as...
What is the author's point of view or perspective?
A picture with labels is called what in a nonfiction book?
What is a diagram.
Which figurative language is the following sentence?
"She is a tornado when she gets angry!"
What is metaphor?
What is an adjective? Provide an example!
A word that describes a noun!!!!
What is the preposition in the sentence below.
Every year, we dance with my friends near the big pond.
Preposition: Near