Text Structures
What text structure is being used?
Dolphins and sharks both live in the ocean and have fins they use to swim quickly. However, Dolphins do not have the sharp teeth like sharks do.
What is Compare and Contrast?
Read the Poem:
Tiny raindrops start to fall,
They leave small dots upon the wall,
Birds in trees stop their singing,
Much needed water the rain is bringing.
What words are rhyming?
What is wall and fall?
What is singing and bringing?
What is Theme?
What is the central message or lesson of the story?
What text feature is a picture taken with a camera?
What is a photograph?
Read the sentence:
She opened the door with a squeak!
What type of figurative language is this?
What is onomatopoeia?
What text structure is being used?
Ms. Hamrick lives in Ballantyne. She has brown hair and hazel eyes. She lives with her husband, Cooper, and her two bunnies. She works at Harrisburg Elementary and teaches third grade.
What is Description?
What do you call a paragraph in poetry?
What is a stanza?
What is Main Idea?
What is the most important part of the story or what the story is mostly about?
What text feature is text under a picture that explains what is happening in the picture?
What is a caption?
Read the sentence:
She was as beautiful as a flower
What type of figurative language is this?
What is a smilie?
What text structure is being used?
Pollution has hurt many forests and habitats for animals over the years. We can do our part by making sure we do not litter and spreading the word on how pollution hurts the Earth.
What is Problem and Solution?
What 3 things should be included in your reasons when writing a TDA response?
What is implicit, explicit, and the explanation?
What is the theme of the story?
Johnny was a carefree third grader who loved to play outside all day. His friend Lily, on the other hand, was diligent and hardworking. When summer arrived, Johnny spent his days playing in the sun, while Lily diligently collected supplies for the upcoming school year. When fall arrived, Johnny realized he had no supplies for school, while Lily was fully prepared.
What is work hard or planning/preparing ahead is important?
What is the text feature that is like a mini dictionary, it gives the definitions of words in the story?
What is a glossary?
Read the sentence:
She is a ray of sunshine!
What type of figurative language is this?
What is a metaphor?
What text structure is being used?
Do you know that a shooting star is? A shooting star is actually not a real star but an asteroid, a space rock, flying through space.
What is Question and Answer?
What text structure is being used?
First, we went to our seats. Next, we got out our bellringer paper. Then, we answered the questions. Finally, when we finished we got to read around the room.
What is Sequencing?
What is the main idea of the story?
Ms. Hamrick ran down the street. She checked her watch and continued to rush even more. She saw the mobiles in the distance. She ran even faster and was finally to her classroom when the bell rang. She welcomed her students as they came in.
What is Ms. Hamrick was late to work?
What text feature is the list of chapters at the beginning of the story?
What is the table of contents?
Read the sentence:
He was so hungry, he could eat a horse!
What type of figurative language is this?
What is a hyperbole?
What is the text structure being used?
Mrs. Bressler and Ms. Hamrick warned the class about talking during testing. So when someone started talking during the SC Ready test, they had a misadministration and the students had to take the test again.
What is Cause and Effect?
Which POV is this written in:
Ben couldn't wait to see his sister. He had missed her while at school that day!
What is 3rd person POV?
What is the theme of the story:
Timmy was a mischievous third grader who loved playing pranks on his classmates. One day, he decided to play a trick on his friend by pretending there was a bug in the classroom. The entire class panicked and ran to the windows, only to find Timmy laughing hysterically. The next day, when a bug was really in the classroom, Timmy tried to warn everyone, but nobody believed him because of his previous prank.
What is people who lie are not believed, do not lie, always tell the truth?
What text feature is like a photograph or drawing but has labels on it?
What is a diagram?
Read the sentence:
When it was my turn to go on stage, my friend said, "Break a leg!"
What type of figurative language is this?
What is an idiom?