Poetry
What is a Line?
A row of words in a poem
What do you learn at the beginning of fictional stories?
Characters & setting
"The best day of the week is Thursday."
Is this a fact or an opinion?
An opinion.
What should you do when you complete one of the passages on Benchmark?
Take a break! Get water, use the restroom, stretch, and reset.
What is this contraction?
"How're you feeling today?"
How are
What is a stanza?
A group of lines in a poem, separated by spaces above and below the others
What is the fiction term for the "problem" in the story?
Conflict
What is an opinion?
Something someone thinks or feels.
While reading the passages, what should you be doing?
Taking notes to help you answer questions.
This goes at the end of a question.
A question mark. ????
Which point of view is used?
"I have to go to bed and see
The birds still hopping on the tree"
First person
Who is the main character in the Turkey books we've read as a class?
Turkey.
What is a fact?
Something that can be proven true or false.
Which reading strategy will help you answer questions?
PQRSTU
Preview
Questions
Review
Stop & jot
Think
Underline
"Caroline will go to school tomorrow."
What tense is the verb in this sentence?
Future tense.
Who is the speaker?
"I have a little frog,
His name is Tiny Tim,
I put him in the bathtub,
To see if he could swim..."
The narrator
What is the main argument of of an essay?
A claim.
Which types of notes will help you when reading a fiction passage?
Characters Setting
Problem/Solution Events
Theme
"She lives in Texas."
What is the noun in this sentence?
Texas. (Noun = person, place, or thing).
What is the name of the figurative language that is used to imitate (sound like) it's real sound.
Onomatopoeia.
In just eight minutes, one team would win the third-grade championship. The score was tied at 24.
Our sweaty team huddled around Coach Sanchez. "Pass it around and don't get boxed in," he warned. "When you're open, shoot."
We stuck our hands in the middle. "Go Eagles!"
Back on the floor, Brandon had the ball. I was open, but he passed it to Cole. Cole had a great turn-around jump shot, but I had a good shot too."
As the reader, what can you infer will happen next?
Brandon will shoot the ball.
Brandon will pass the ball to the narrator, and he will shoot at the basket.
A leader had a plan: he said they should put the burned things in the lake. Then they would have more land. Some people said that was a waste of time. They should build houses first. But other people said they could do both. They could move the burned things, and they could build, too.
What was the leader's argument in this passage?
They should put the burned things in the lake.
Which type of notes should you take while reading a non-fiction or argumentative passage?
Box and bullets.
"Cade lives in Texas."
What type of nouns are in the sentence above?
Proper nouns.