5th Grade
Grammar
Grammar
What is a noun?
Person, place, or thing
What should always go at the end of a sentence?
Punctuation. (.!?)
What is the setting in a story?
2-things-Where and when the story takes place
How do you make an inference?
Schema + text
How do you paraphrase?
Retell something in your own words.
What is a prefix?
a word part that goes at the beginning of a word
Period, question mark, and exclamation marks are known as _________ marks.
punctuation
What is the conflict in a story?
the problem
What are the other terms for key idea?
What is a summary?
A short version of the text with just the main ideas.
What is a suffix?
A word part that goes at the end of a word
Why do we use quotation marks?
To show the words that someone has spoken; dialogue
List some author's purposes.
Persuade, inform, entertain-name synonyms for these verbs
What is key idea?
What the whole text is about
What does compare and contrast mean?
Tell how something is alike and different (similarities and differences)
What is the past tense of drive?
drove
How do you write a summary for fiction?
SWBST (somebody, wanted, but, so, then)
What is the author's message?
What the author wants us to learn from the text
How do you RACE?
Restate the question.
Answer the question.
Cite, or copy, evidence.
Explain your answer.
Why do you use context clues?
To determine the meaning of unfamiliar words
What is a verb?
An action word!
What is the subject of a sentence?
Who or what is doing the action
What does text evidence mean?
Showing proof
Explain the types of connections we can make to texts?
Text to text-explain
Text to society-explain
What is the main idea of a text?
A sentence must have what two parts?
Subject and predicate
How do you write a summary for nonfiction?
BME (beginning, middle, end) or use the 5 Ws (who, what, when, where, why, how)
What is author's purpose?
WHY an author writes
Poetry has a lot of ______ _______.
Figurative language
What is the meaning of abrupt as used in this sentence?
The car came to an abrupt stop to avoid hitting the cat.
Sudden, quick