Reading 5th Grade
The location and time of a story
What is the setting?
What is it called when you see ABBA or AABB or ABAB in poetry?
Rhyme Scheme
"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
The big idea of a passage: you can find it by looking at repeated words, subheadings, title, pictures, captions
Main Idea
The lesson, moral, or message an author is trying to teach in a story.
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 type of author's purpose is it when an author tries to get you to believe the same way they do about a topic?
Persuade/Persuasion
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?
Cause/Effect
Chronological/Sequential
Problem/Solution
Compare/Contrast
Sequence/Chronological
What does it mean to compare and contrast?
To describe how things are alike and how they are different
Boom, crack, buzz
A microscope allows scientists to see small things
A microphone enhances quiet sounds
A microchip is a tiny piece of technology in a computer
What does the stem "micro" mean?
Small
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?
The text feature you would go to to find out if a certain topic is IN the book and on which page to look.
Index
A book about a person written by someone else.
biography
What figurative language is this below?
Lucy Lu loves lasagna and linguini.
What is the Alliteration
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
words such as "first", "next", "another", "In addition", and "Lastly" that help to organize ideas in a paragraph or essay
Transition Words