Reading 5th Grade
The location and time of a story
What is the setting?
This part of an essay introduces the topic, states the main idea or claim, and gives background.
What is the introduction?
A person place or thing.
What is a noun?
A comparison using like or as
What is a simile?
A word or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word or phrase.
What is a synonym?
Story with make believe characters, magic, portals to another world, etc.
What is the fantasy?
This is a short version of the story that includes just the important details.
What is the summary?
Choose the correct word: I can't wait to go to (your/you're) house after school!
What is "your"?
Specific details or facts that support an idea or inference.
What is text evidence?
A word or phrase that is opposite in meaning to another word or phrase in the same language (e.g. bad and good).
What is an antonym?
What do you call a part of the book with titles and pages of where to find them?
A narrative style where a story is told from a character's perspective inside the story using "I," "me," "my," and "we"
What is the first person point of view?
Words that describe nouns
What is an adjective?
When text is written with an outside view using the pronouns he, she, it, they, him, her, or them.
What is 3rd person point of view?
What is a "verb"?
A verb is a word that describes an action or a state of being
What the story is mainly about
Central or Main idea
This part of the paragraph states the author's opinion and directly answers the prompt.
What is the claim?
I love going to professional baseball games they are so much fun
This is a run-on sentence. Correct the sentence.
I love going to professional baseball games because they are so much fun.
or
I love going to professional baseball games. They are so much fun.
Fix the sentence. There are three mistakes: Once the trian arrives we will be on are way
Once the train arrives, we will be on our way.
List three sequence or chronological transition words
First, Next, Finally, Then, Later, After
the main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence.
What is a plot?
This is the last part of an essay that wraps it up. It is best to end with a transition like "In closing". It should also restate your claim.
What is a conclusion?
An adverb is a part of speech that modifies verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs, providing context about how, when, where, or how often
Give an example
What is an lastly, softly, roughly, quickly?
Fix the sentence: "me and my friend are gonna go to the beach next weekend."
My friend and I are going to go to the beach next weekend.
What is the adjective in this sentence? The cake smells delicious!
delicious