Nouns
A type of word that can take the place of one or more nouns in a sentence.
What is a pronoun?
What does PIE stand for?
What is persuade, inform, and entertain.
___________ starts with a capital letter and end with a punctuation mark.
What is a complete sentence?
Action words
What are verbs?
Words underneath of a picture that explain what is happening in the picture.
What is a caption
A word that can take the place of the subject (noun) of the sentence.
What is a subject pronoun?
Writing that is telling a story. The author’s purpose is usually to entertain.
What is Narrative Writing
The _______ of the sentence is who, or what, the sentence is about.
What is the subject?
Action words that have already taken place.
What are past tense verbs?
What is this a simile comparing?
the dog ran as fast as lightning
The simile is comparing the dog and the lightning
A noun that names more than one person, animal, place, or thing.
Writing that is factual. The author’s purpose is to inform or explain something to the reader.
What is informational writing?
The _______ of a sentence is the action that the subject is performing.
What is the predicate?
What is -ed?
Figurative language that gives human qualities or characteristics to an animal or object.
What is personification?
Nouns that show that a person, animal, place, or thing has or owns something.
What are possessive nouns?
Writing that is trying to convince the reader. The author’s purpose is to persuade.
Opinion or argument writing
________ sentences are sentences formed from two simple sentences being combined together.
What are compound sentences?
Make this sentence plural:
The chicken laid their eggs.
What is the chickens laid their eggs.
a comparison of two things using “like” or “as”.
What is a simile?
On Tuesday, the boy will practice golfing.
On Tuesday, he will practice golfing.
Identify which type of writing this is:
Baseball is an amazing sport. My team practices twice a week. I’ve made a lot of friends. You should come join my team.
What is opinion writing?
create a compound sentence out of these two simple sentences.
Tracy ate a burger. The burger she ate was fresh off of the grill.
Tracy ate a burger that was fresh off of the grill.
Make this sentence present tense, and plural:
The car drive away.
The car drives away.
The wind screamed has it passed through the trees.
What makes this sentence personification?
The fact that wind cannot actually scream because it is not a person with a mouth or lungs.