Reading 5th Grade
The location and time of a story
What is the setting?
This part of an essay tells what the topic will be.
What is the introduction?
What point of view is the story being told from if it has words such as "you," "your," and yourself?"
a. first person
b. second person
c. third person
Second Person
I love going to baseball games they are so much fun people love baseball a lot because it is fun to watch.
The incorrect sentence above is an example of this type of sentence.
a. run-on sentence
b. incomplete sentence/fragment
Run-on Sentence
DAILY TRIPLE
She walked as swift as the wind to get to class on time.
People or things inside a story is called?
Characters
This is a short version of the story that includes just the important details.
What is the summary?
What type of writing is the story if its purpose is to give you information, details, and facts about a subject?
Informative Writing
This is the correct way to write a title of a book. "Wonder"
What is false?
This classroom is an icebox!
metaphor
What do you call a part of the book with titles and pages of where to find them?
Table of Contents
DAILY DOUBLE
This type of writing can be fiction or non-fiction, but is usually written as a story with characters, setting, a plot, and descriptive details.
What is narrative writing?
DAILY TRIPLE
What type of writing is it when you take a stand on an issue and try to tell the reader your point about this issue?
Argumentative Writing
That is (there, their, or they're) dog.
What is their?
The sea lashed out in anger at the ships, unwilling to tolerate another battle.
Personification
This is the main message the author wants to convey in his/her story. This is the moral is the lesson that the writer wants you to learn from the story.
What is a theme?
When the story is told from the perspective of the narrator, using words like "I" or "me"
What is first person?
To describe how things are alike and how they are different
What is compare and contrast?
One is correct.
After I went to walmart, I ran home to see my new puppy.
After flying into New York, I went to see my old teacher.
What is "After flying into New York, I went to see my old teacher?"
DAILY DOUBLE
I've told you a million times to clean your room!
Hyperbole
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?
DAILY DOUBLE
This is the last part of a paper that wraps it up. It is best to end this with an impact statement.
What are the 3 reasons (or purposes) why we write?
The purpose of the story is to _______, ________, or ___________.
To Inform, To Persuade, To Entertain
The sloth may stay in the tree all day.
The helping verb in the sentence above is _____.
What is may?
The kid was so mad at his mom, he was giving her the cold shoulder.
Idiom