Pronouns
A pronoun is used to replace or refer back to the _________ in a sentence (part of speech).
What is a noun?
This is basically what the passage/ reading is about, summed up in one sentence.
What is the main idea?
This is a person, place or thing.
What is a noun?
This teacher has rescue rabbits at home.
Who is Mrs. H?
These are two important things that writer's use in every paragraph's first sentence.
What are indentation and capitalization?
- BONUS POINTS FOR: A good topic sentence example!
The pronoun in this sentence is _______.
The athletes practice hockey every day, so ______ are getting much better and winning more games.
What is they?
This is when we make a decision or judgement based upon what we know, see and read that is not explicitly written in the text.
What is an inference?
This is a describing word that modifies and relates back to a noun.
What is an adjective?
This teacher has dogs she walks every day.
Who is Mrs. Moschella?
Complete structured paragraphs contain at least ___________ sentences.
What is 5-8?
Topic Sentence, Background (1-2), Evidence, Explanation(1-2), Closing
A cat licks _______ paw (animal, object pronoun).
What is its?
While this is not the main idea, this important part of what we read supports the main idea.
What is a supporting detail?
This part of speech refers to/modifies a verb or adjective. See the following example: The student carefully reviewed his test.
What is an adverb?
This process helps plants to get energy and to grow.
What is photosynthesis?
This type of paragraph uses no quotes or evidence, and it basically tells the reader what happened in a story.
Hint: Somebody Wanted But So Then
What is a summary?
The pronoun in this sentence is ______________.
Pete it a great hockey coach, and he spends a lot of time training his team.
What is he?
We use _____________________ as a pre-reading exercise to help us understand the subject and information that we will be reading about in a passage or non-fiction article.
What are text features?
Bonus: name 3 text features!
This part of speech replaces a noun.
What is a pronoun?
There are 2 new coffee/snack/treat cafes in town that just opened, and their names are creative! They are ___________ and _____________.
What are Cream and Sugar and The Spot Cafe?
These are 2 separate sentences in a paragraph that state the main idea in slightly different ways.
What are the topic sentence and the conclusion/closing sentence?
The pronoun in this sentence is ________.
Mrs. Moschella loves her dogs, so ____ makes sure they get exercise and playtime every day.
What is she?
This is how the author organizes their article/passage, and it can include an organizational approach such as cause and effect.
What is text structure? Bonus: name a text structure you have seen in an article other than cause and effect!!
The italicized part of speech in this sentence is an _________.
Olivia carefully finished her assignment.
What is an adverb?
This is a citizen/person who is not part of the military and this person has no military rank or responsibilities.
Hint: When a soldier is not on duty, he wears his _________ clothes instead of his uniform.
What is a civilian?
These 2 items are necessary to protect a writer from plagiarism when including evidence in a paragraph.
What are " " quotation marks and citation (Author Name, pg #)?