5th Grade ELA
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5th Grade Writing
100

Non-Fiction is?

A text based on facts, real events, and real people, such as science or history texts.

100

What is Fiction?

Fiction is fake like fairy tales.

100

This is when 2 words means the same thing

 What is a synonym?

100

What is a metaphor?



What is a comparison that says one thing is another?


100

What punctuation is used to show someone is speaking?


what are quotation marks

200

What is the name of the person who writes the story? 

what is the author
200

What is a synonym for “happy”?


Joyful

200

This figurative language is being used in this sentence “The boy was like a lion because he was so courageous”

What is a Simile?

200

Which word is the "helping verb" in the sentence?

We will take a test tomorrow. 

will

200

If a character puts on a coat and grabs an umbrella, what can you infer?


it is raining and cold outside 

300

Name 3 text structures (there are 5)

Cause and effect, descriptive, sequence, compare/contrast, problem and solution

300

What is the opposite of “ancient”?


modern or new

300

This is what you call a book that talks about a person’s life from beginning to end

What is an Biography?

300

Daily Double: 

This word is the name for sound words. Ex. Bang, Boom, Crash"

Onomatopoeia

300

True or False: You should read all directions and questions in each part before reading your sources or answering any questions. 

True

400

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

400

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”?


400

What does sensory details include?

What is details that help you see, hear, smell, taste and feel

400

Name two clues you can use to find the main idea

Answers will vary

400

What kind of writing gives an opinion and tries to convince the reader?




A: What is persuasive or argumentative writing?


500

Non-fiction means...

The story is true

500

In a story, who usually tries to solve the problem?


What is the main character or protagonist


500

DAILY DOUBLE!! This is what you call a story you write about your own life. 

What is an Autobiography

500

The wind howled through the trees” is an example of what?



A: What is personification?


500

What are the point of view you could write in? Name them all. 

1st, 2nd, 3rd person

600

Fiction means...

A story is not real

600

What is the setting of a story?


time and place a story happens

600

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

600

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

600

What is a compound word? Give an example.




A: What is a word made from two smaller words, like “sunflower” or “notebook”?


700

I decided to go over _________ to pick up ___________ extra cookies. 

there, they're

they're, there

there, their

their, there

What is there, their?

700

What is an inference?


What is a conclusion you make using clues from the text and what you already know?

700

What is an adjective?

Describes a noun

700

What is alliteration?


What is the repetition of the same beginning sound in a series of words


700

How does the suffix “-less” change a word, like in “hopeless”?


without

800

Name 3 character traits

responsible, kind, loving... answers may vary
800

What do we call the events that lead up to the climax of a story?


What is the rising action?


800

What is Main Idea?

The main idea is the central, or most important, idea in a paragraph or passage.

800

What part of speech describes an action?


what is a verb

800

What does the author’s purpose “PIE” stand for?


What is Persuade, Inform, Entertain?


900

Name 3 structural elements of poetry (there are 9 total)

rhyme, repetition, tone/theme, lines, stanza, mood, figurative language, meter, rhythm. 

900

Choose the correct word: “They’re/Their/There going to the park.”


they’re

900

What does the theme tell you?

The lesson learned or the author's message 

900

What part of speech describes a noun?


adjective 

900

What is the author’s purpose if they are trying to teach you something?


Inform

1000

Two parts are needed to make an inference when reading a text

Explicit information and what you know (experience)

1000

What is a simile?


What is a comparison using “like” or “as”?


1000

Setting tells what two things?

Time and Place

1000

What is the conjunction in this sentence: “I want pizza, but we’re having salad”?


what is “but”

1000

A commercial says, “Buy this now!” What’s the author’s purpose?


persuade