5th Grade ELA
Non-Fiction is?
A text based on facts, real events, and real people, such as science or history texts.
What is Fiction?
Fiction is fake like fairy tales.
This is when 2 words means the same thing
What is a synonym?
What is a metaphor?
What punctuation is used to show someone is speaking?
what are quotation marks
What is the name of the person who writes the story?
What is a synonym for “happy”?
Joyful
This figurative language is being used in this sentence “The boy was like a lion because he was so courageous”
What is a Simile?
Which word is the "helping verb" in the sentence?
We will take a test tomorrow.
will
If a character puts on a coat and grabs an umbrella, what can you infer?
it is raining and cold outside
Name 3 text structures (there are 5)
Cause and effect, descriptive, sequence, compare/contrast, problem and solution
What is the opposite of “ancient”?
modern or new
This is what you call a book that talks about a person’s life from beginning to end
What is an Biography?
Daily Double:
This word is the name for sound words. Ex. Bang, Boom, Crash"
Onomatopoeia
True or False: You should read all directions and questions in each part before reading your sources or answering any questions.
True
Determine the main Idea:
Some animals spend a lot of time in the water. One example is the hippopotamus. The name of this large African animal means “river horse”. On hot days, you will find a hippo spending several hours in lakes and rivers. Only a hippo’s eyes, ears and nostrils can be seen above the water. This will help the hairless animal from getting sunburned. The hippo does get out of the water at night to find larger plants to eat, but it eats many water plants. If the water is ever low, hippos will roll their bodies in mud to prevent it from drying out.
Hippos spend a lot of time in the water
What is a prefix, and give an example.
What is a group of letters added to the beginning of a word, like “un-” in “undo”?
What does sensory details include?
What is details that help you see, hear, smell, taste and feel
Name two clues you can use to find the main idea
Answers will vary
What kind of writing gives an opinion and tries to convince the reader?
A: What is persuasive or argumentative writing?
Non-fiction means...
The story is true
In a story, who usually tries to solve the problem?
What is the main character or protagonist
DAILY DOUBLE!! This is what you call a story you write about your own life.
What is an Autobiography
The wind howled through the trees” is an example of what?
A: What is personification?
What are the point of view you could write in? Name them all.
1st, 2nd, 3rd person
Fiction means...
A story is not real
What is the setting of a story?
time and place a story happens
This is a piece of literature that is based on people, events, and worlds that are not true but have aspects of historical truth.
What is Historical Fiction
What do we call a phrase that doesn’t mean exactly what it says, like “it’s raining cats and dogs”?
What is an idiom
What is a compound word? Give an example.
A: What is a word made from two smaller words, like “sunflower” or “notebook”?
I decided to go over _________ to pick up ___________ extra cookies.
there, they're
they're, there
there, their
their, there
What is there, their?
What is an inference?
What is a conclusion you make using clues from the text and what you already know?
What is an adjective?
Describes a noun
What is alliteration?
What is the repetition of the same beginning sound in a series of words
How does the suffix “-less” change a word, like in “hopeless”?
without
Name 3 character traits
What do we call the events that lead up to the climax of a story?
What is the rising action?
What is Main Idea?
The main idea is the central, or most important, idea in a paragraph or passage.
What part of speech describes an action?
what is a verb
What does the author’s purpose “PIE” stand for?
What is Persuade, Inform, Entertain?
Name 3 structural elements of poetry (there are 9 total)
rhyme, repetition, tone/theme, lines, stanza, mood, figurative language, meter, rhythm.
Choose the correct word: “They’re/Their/There going to the park.”
they’re
What does the theme tell you?
The lesson learned or the author's message
What part of speech describes a noun?
adjective
What is the author’s purpose if they are trying to teach you something?
Inform
Two parts are needed to make an inference when reading a text
Explicit information and what you know (experience)
What is a simile?
What is a comparison using “like” or “as”?
Setting tells what two things?
Time and Place
What is the conjunction in this sentence: “I want pizza, but we’re having salad”?
what is “but”
A commercial says, “Buy this now!” What’s the author’s purpose?
persuade