6th 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
What is an inference?
an educated guess based off of your experience and the text evidence
How do you paraphrase?
Retell something in your own words.
What is personification?
Giving non-human things human qualities
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 an idiom?
A phrase that means something different then what it says
Why do we use quotation marks?
To show the words that someone has spoken; dialogue
List at least 2 author's purposes.
Persuade, inform, entertain
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 many sentences are in a paragraph?
4-6 sentences
What is the theme of a story?
The overall message or lesson
what is a comma used for?
to separate three or more words, phrases, or clauses written in a series; also, to show a pause in the sentence
Why do we annotate reading passages?
To highlight interesting, important, or unfamiliar words or concepts. It helps us understand the passage better.
What is a verb?
An action word!
Which paragraph do you introduce the characters and setting?
Paragraph 1/ Introduction paragraph
What does text evidence mean?
Showing proof
Name two genres of writing.
Realistic Fiction Adventure
Fantasy Historical
Fiction Humor
Informational Horror
What is the main idea of a text?
What is a simile?
Comparing two thing using like or as
How many paragraphs should be in an essay?
4 paragraphs
What is author's purpose?
WHY an author writes
Poetry has ______ instead of paragraphs.
stanzas
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