ELA
What is the main idea of a text?
What the text is mostly about
What does a quotation mark mean when used in a text?
" "
That someone is talking
What does the Greek root aqua mean?
water
The class is obnoxiously loud today.
What does the word obnoxious mean?
extremely unpleasant
What is the text structure that an author would use to give you facts about a cheetah?
description
Which point of view.....
-uses the words "he", "she", or "they" to tell a story.
- is told by someone who is not part of the story
Third-person point of view
The dog runs very fast down the hallway.
Which word is the preposition?
down
The prefix bi- in bicycle means that a bicycle has ___ wheels.
Two or 2
Some of you are a decade old.
How long is a decade?
10 years
How would an author organize a a recipe?
sequential, chronological
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
Emily is selective about what she eats. What does selective mean?
choosy; picky
The text structure what put events in order is know as ___________.
a. compare and contrast
b. sequence or chronological
c. problem and solution
b. sequence or chronological
What does the word " gingerly" mean?
cautiously; timidly
Cause and effect
A mystery falls under which genre?
fiction
An exclamatory sentence ends with a/an....
Exclamation point
The test was a piece of cake. What does the idiom "piece of cake " mean?
It was easy.
What does the simile " She's an angel" mean?
She was really nice; sweet; kind or well behaved
The common house cat is a fierce hunter when it comes to mice and bugs in your home. However, it is no match to its descendant or cousin, the lion, that hunts wild water buffalo on the Safari. They have many things that are similar but many things that are also very different about the two cats.
compare and contrast
What is wrong with this sentence?
the boy ran toward the building when he heard the noise.
the 't' in the needs to be capitalized
What word is a verb in the following sentence?
Tony slithered quietly down the hallway.
slithered
What does the prefix 'un' mean?
not
What does the word part "PED" mean?
foot, feet
How does an author organize a text in which a character is a hero and saves the day from a villan?
problem and solution