Parts of Speech
What is a noun?
Person, Place, Thing, or Animal
the purpose and point of the paragraph; what the text is about
central idea
the boy ran away.
What error is in this sentence?
Capitalisation
a comparison using "like" or "as"
simile
Name three genres of texts
Examples: fiction, nonfiction, historical fiction, informational, poem, etc.
What makes a noun a proper noun?
A SPECIFIC person, place, thing, or animal
the moral/lesson learned
theme
Did you see the boy run He is going to the store.
What is missing?
question mark after "run"
giving an object human qualities
personification
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
How can you fix this sentence?
Ms. Beavers is have her Birthday parties on Friday.
Ms. Beavers is having her Birthday party on Friday.
What is a verb in this sentence?
Ms. Beavers jumped for joy when she saw her students' test scores.
jumped or saw
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!!!
An educated guess that uses context clues.
inference
Which is the correct spelling?
A. acomplish
B. accomplish
C. accomplissh
D. acomplich
B. accomplish
What kind of figurative language is this?
The boy was a cheetah.
Metaphor
When you read you often come to words that you don't know. One way to find out a words meanings is to look for_________________________________
Context Clues
Are these words homophones or homographs?
Bat (baseball) and Bat (animal)
Homographs: they are both spelled the same, but are pronounced differently.
anything that helps to prove that something is or is not true
evidence
The boy said, I am going to the store.
What is missing?
quotation marks
BOOM!
BAM!
Bzzzzzzz!
Ringgggg!
onomatopoeia
This is a synonym for Perspective of a story
Point of View
What word in this sentence could be changed to a pronoun? AND what pronoun would you change it to?
Ms. Beavers likes to read.
Ms. Beavers, she
Name the 4 type of text structures?
Cause and Effect, Compare Contrast, sequential/ logical, problem solution
Which is correct?
A. The teacher Ms. Beavers teaches 5th grade ELA.
B. The teacher, Ms. Beavers, teaches 5th grade ELA.
C. The teacher "Ms. Beavers" teaches 5th grade ELA.
B. The teacher, Ms. Beavers, teaches 5th grade ELA.
an exaggeration; For example, I am so hungry I could eat a horse!
hyperbole
What was the first story we read in our MyBook?
The Inventors Secret