Writing 5th Grade
The location and time of a story
What is the setting?
Found at the end of the book and lists key words in alphabetical order with definitions.
What is the glossary?
"He was as quiet as a mouse" is an example of ___.
What is simile?
What is the action/doing part of a sentence?
Verb
Which sentence uses there correctly?
1) That is there food.
2) I put my laptop over there.
3) There a funny class.
2
Conjunctions & type?
I like ________ cabbage ____ broccoli. They are gross.
neither...nor
correlative
If you are writing a new ending for a story...
where do you start?
what 3 things do you have to keep the same?
Where the other story leaves off
Narrator's point of view, verb tense, main characters.
What resource would you use to find synonyms and antonyms of a word?
Which would you use to look up the meaning of a word?
Thesaurus
Dictionary
"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 are the perfect tense verbs?
has/have gone
had gone
will have gone
present perfect
past perfect
future perfect
I, we, she, he, they, it are examples of
What are pronouns?
Conjunction and type
Although I hate green vegetables, I love salad.
although
subordinating (swabi)
What are sensory details and description?
Showing what you see, hear, smell, say, do
What is the difference between a common noun and a proper noun?
Proper noun is capitalized; proper noun is a specific name of a person place or thing
Which figurative language is the following sentence?
She is a tornado when she gets angry!
What is a metaphor?
A word that describes a noun
What is an adjective?
What are the helping and linking verbs in these sentences.
He is going to the prom.
She was sick yesterday.
He had gone to work before his friend called.
is, was, had
so
FANBOYS
If you are writing a story from a different character's perspective, what do you change?
Point of view....
words like I, me, us he, she, they
What do the word parts mean?
rupt
chrono
auto
break
time
self
Anna decided to bite the bullet and do her homework before going to the movies.
idiom
A person, place, or thing.
What is a noun?
300 points: Adding a _______ before a root word changes the meaning. Adding a ______ to the end of a root word changes the meaning.
100 points: Example of each.
Prefix
Suffix
Answers vary
Correct the verbs if needed.
I went to the store, am buying food for lunch, and packed my sandwich last night.
am buying to bought
What is a good way to hook the reader in a narrative?
Describe what the character sees, feels, says or hears someone say.
What are the meanings of the word parts?
inter
mal
dis
between
bad
not
Many hands make light work.
When words sounds alike but have different meanings/spellings. (there and there)
Bonus 50: Words that sound different but are spelled the same. (bow and bow)
Homophone
Homograph
above, across, below, beside, at, by, down, from are examples of _______________
which word could be added to the list?
there, when, after, next, open,
What are prepositions?
after
What type of conjunction is in a compound sentence?
What type of conjunction is in a complex sentence?
Where do you put the comma in each?
FANBOYS
SWABI
Compound -- before FANBOYS
Complex -- after dependent clause if SWABI starts sentence.