6th Grade ELA 1
What is the setting of a story?
Where/when the story takes place
When a narrator uses "I, Me," it is written in this perspective
First Person
What is a synonym for the word "happy"
glad, joyful, ecstatic
What is the opening paragraph to your writing called?
The closing, the introduction, or the body?
Introduction
What is the theme of a story?
the lesson or moral of a story
The problem of the story
The message or lesson of the story
Theme
What are the parts of an information essay?
Introduction, body paragraphs, conclusion
Is the following sentence a simile or metaphor?
She was busy as a bee.
Simile - It uses the word "as" to compare two unlike things.
What is text evidence?
What does it mean to compare and contrast?
To tell how things are the same or different
When the narrator uses "She, He, they" it is written in this perspective
Third Person
Explain the difference between fiction and nonfiction.
Fiction = a made up story
Nonfiction = text based on factual information
How are an informational and narrative essay different?
Information is teaching on a subject.
Narrative is writing a story.
Name two conjunctions in this sentence:
The dog and the cat used to be best friends, but recently they have had a falling out, so now they keep their distance from one another.
FANBOYS
For
And
Nor
But
Yet
So
Which word in the sentence is the pronoun:
"Ms. Lotstein was so excited to teach her students this year."
her
What a nonfiction text is mostly aobut?
Facts or real events
What is a verb?
What are the verbs in this sentence:
She watched him play at the park.
watched and play
Name 3 adjectives
description words
What does a sequential or chronological text do?
Puts something in order from beginning to end.
What is the theme of this paragraph.
Sadie was kicking a soccer ball in the house and broke her mom's expensive vase. The vase was shattered into a million pieces. Even though she was scared, she went to her mom and told her what she had done. She knew she knew she'd be punished but she still went and told her mom.
Honesty in the best policy.
How many nouns are in this sentence:
Boyer and Shayna drove past the store and quickly parked by Chipotle.
4
What do we call all of the events in a story?
Plot
Trying to convince someone of something