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The location and time of a story
What is the setting?
Where do you find the table of contents in a book?
What is at the beginning of the book?
"He was as quiet as a mouse" is an example of ___.
What is simile?
What figurative language is expressed in the following sentence:
He has two hats on his head.
Alliteration
What is the difference between fiction and non fiction?
fiction=not real
non fiction=read
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. SWBST
What is the summary?
Boom!
Is an example of what type of figurative language?
What is onomatopeia?
What is a synonym?
What is an antonym?
synonym=same
antonym=opposite
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 and definitions 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/Chronological
Because it was raining outside, we had to cancel practice is an example of?
Cause and Effect
Don't
Aren't
Can't
are all examples of .......
What is a contraction?
A microscope allows scientists to see things
A microphone enhances quiet sounds
A microchip is a little piece of technology in a computer
What does the stem "micro" mean?
Small
What three letters do we use to help us when writing an essay. ______ _______ _______
What is ACE
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 and find out if a certain topic is IN the book and on which page to look.
Index
sunshine
basketball
rainbow
are all examples of ....
compound words
A book about a person written by someone else.
biography
What figurative language is this below?
The flower danced in the breeze.
What is personification
A picture with labels is called what in a nonfiction book?
What is a diagram.
Find two errors in this sentence.
The story All Thirteen was about how 13 boy's were stuck in a cave for more than 10 days.
All Thirteen needs to be underlined
boy's needs to be changed to boys
Name a pair of correlative conjunctions.
either, or
neither, nor
both, and
not only, but also
What part of speech are his, our, your?
Pronouns