Story Elements
This is when/where the story takes place.
The setting
You should complete the NSCAS as fast as possible. True or False??
False: It is more important to do your best, take your time, and use your strategies.
The message, lesson, or moral that the author wants you to take away from the story.
What is theme.
What part of speech are a person, place, thing, or idea?
noun
You need to load the dishwasher when you get home. If you do not do this you might not be able to play video games with friends.
2nd person point of view
You should wait for directions from your teacher, follow the prompts, and not get ahead of the teacher when they are speaking. True or False?
True: You do not click ahead, work ahead, etc. You should listen to directions and follow along.
If an author's writing to persuade, inform, entertain, explain or describe it is called?
Author's purpose
This part of speech is an action word.
A verb
The author's purpose of a fictional text is to
entertain, tell a story
Reread the text
Can you use pictures and captions to help you answer questions from a selection?
Yes!
What are the adjectives in the following sentence.
Ex: The kind girl played with the tiny cat.
kind and tiny
What point of view is a text that uses: I, me, my, we, us
First Person Point of View
what is to believe in yourself and reframe your brain. "I don't know it YET.."
If you cannot determine the meaning of a word what is a strategy you can use?
Use context clues
A compound sentence is when two complete sentences are combined using a coordinating conjunction (and, so, but) and what else?
a comma
Words that have the same or similar meaning are called?
Synonyms
When finished what should I do?
Review my questions, Submit my work, move my iPad, and read.
When you read,
"In the next two selections..."
What does this mean on a test?
There is a paired passage. Make sure your questions match the story you are reading.
These phrases are examples of what type of figurative language?
The wind howled at night. The book was so popular it flew off the shelves. The last piece of pie was calling my name.
Personification - giving human qualities to things and ideas that are not humans.