Reading
What is the difference between First Person point of view and Third Person point of view?
First person is when the narrator is part of the story. It will have words like I, me, my, we, us.
Third person is when the narrator is outside of the story. I will have words like he, she, him, her, they, them.
100 Bonus Points: What is the other type of point of view and what is the definition?
What are the two parts of a sentence called?
Subject and Predicate
What are synonyms?
Words that mean the same thing
What are the three types of verbs?
Action verbs, Linking verbs, and Helping verbs
What is the difference between a personal narrative and a fictional narrative?
Give one example Theme
Theme is the message or lesson the author wants you to learn
Examples: Be honest, Tell the truth, Help others, Listen to your parents
What type of punctuation do you use at the end of an imperative sentence?
Period or exclamation point
100 Bonus Point: Name the three other types of sentences
What pronoun could be used in place of the subject in the following sentence?
Rosa and Cindy have dance lessons.
They
Put these adjectives in the correct order: purple, wooden, twenty, square, big
twenty, big, square, purple, wooden
Give an example of an opinion statement
Ex: Purple is the best color.
Name two Text Structures of an informational text
Description, Compare/Contrast, Sequence, Problem/Solution, Cause/Effect
The following sentence is an example of what kind of sentence: I love going to the water park because it has lots of slides and food and I can meet new people and play in the arcade it is the best place to take a vacation!
100 Bonus points: Can you fix it?
What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor?
Similes compare two things using like or as, metaphors compare two things without using like or as
What is an adjective?
Describes a noun
What are three text features that you could add to informative writing?
Photograph, Illustration, Graph, Diagram, Map, Timeline, Infographic
Name three elements of poetry
Line breaks, stanzas, rhyming, rhythm, repetition, imagery, onomatopoeia, alliteration
Add punctuation to this sentence: They came into the room turned on the light and mom yelled I need you to clean up this mess right now
They came into the room, turned on the light, and mom yelled, "I need you to clean up this mess right now!"
What are the two prepositional phrases in the following sentence?
In the fog, the frog sang a song on a log.
on a log and in the fog
What does FANBOYS stand for?
For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So
What is the name for talking in a story?
Dialogue
What are the parts of a story's plot? Name them in order
Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution
What is a sentence fragment?
It is either missing a subject or a predicate
Put these words in alphabetical order: peas, parsley, pear, peach, parfaits, pineapple, peanut
parfaits, parsley, peach, peanut, pear, peas, pineapple
Fill in the progressive verb chart:
Past Present Future
I
He/She
We/They
Past Present Future
I was am will be
He/She was is will be
We/They were are will be
If I write a paper giving facts about an octopus what type of paper is it?
Informative