4th Grade
ELA parts of speech
4th Grade
ELA Misc.
4th Grade sentences
4th grade
ELA Roots and Affixes
4th Grade Writing
100

What is a noun?

a person, place or thing


Bonus:  name a noun

100

What are these: "  "

Quotation marks

100

What is wrong with this sentence?

james and maggie brang a bag of popcorn to the picnic

James and Maggie brought a bag of popcorn to the picnic.

100

What does the prefix re- mean?

Again

100

How many sentences should be in a paragraph?

3-5 sentences

200

What is a conjunction? Name 3 examples?


A conjunction is a word that ties together 2 complete sentences to make a compound sentence. 

Examples: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so

200

Fact or opinion: "Green beans are gross and taste like boogers." 

Opinion

200

An exclamatory sentence ends with a/an....

Exclamation Point!!!!!!

200

What does the prefix un mean?

not

200

What are the five different text structures that a text can be written in? 

Description (main idea), Compare and Contrast, Problem and Solution, Chronological (sequence/time order), Cause and Effect

300

What is the prepositional phrase in this sentence?

Cheryl celebrated her birthday with a cake on the table.


on the table

"on"

300

What does the simile "she has a heart of gold" mean?

She is a nice person.

300

Find the 4 problems with this sentence:

without her lunch Emma were very hungry

Without her lunch, Emma was very hungry.

Capital, Comma, Tense, Period

300

What is a root word? Identify the root word for the word "breakable".


A word without a prefix or suffix, base word.

Break (root) 

BONUS:  What does unbreakable mean?

300

Third-person point of view  words in a narrative:


Words like he, she, they, them

400

What is a simile? 

Comparing two different things that are not alike using like or as.

400

My mom terminated my phone contract because I was not responsible.  What is a synonym for terminated?

a. paid    b. stopped   c. grew

stopped

400

What is wrong with this sentence?

how do we take a test without letrs or numbers!

How do we take a test without letters or numbers?

Capital, spelling, punctuation

400

What does the suffix -ful mean?

full of

400

A first-person narrator uses the words "I, me, we, our, theirs".

True or False?

True!

500

 What is a verb?

What is the verb in this sentence?

The kids in the lunchroom ate pickles and pancakes.

Verb is an action word.  The verb in the sentence is ate

BONUS:  What are the present and future tenses of this verb?

500

What can we infer from this sentence?

Suzi walked quickly down the street, gripping her umbrella tightly.

It is raining.

500

What type of sentence is shown below?

Sally baked a batch of cupcakes for Jack. 

A. Interrogative

B. Declarative

C. Exclamatory

B. Declarative

500

What does the word 'react' mean?

Act again

500

What figurative language is used here?

Personification

600

What is the verb in the following sentence?

Tony slithered quietly down the hallway.

slithered

600

I was bending over backwards to please my teacher. What does the idiom "bending over backwards" mean?

Trying really hard to please someone.

600

What type of sentence is shown below?


At what time will we go to lunch today?

Interrogative


600

The prefix quad- in the word: quadruple mean?

four times

600

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. She went to her mom and told her what she had done even though she knew she'd be punished.

The theme is honesty.