Informational Text
Fictional Text
Basics
Figurative Language
Grammar
100

Some kinds of bats eat many insects. Some bats can eat up to 600 mosquitos in one hour.  Bats are helpful to the environment. They help us by eating insects.  Without bats, we would have too many insects.

What is the central idea?

a. bats are mammals

b. bats eat 600 mosquitos in an hour

c. bats eat many insects

c. bats eat many insects

100

Where the story takes place is called?

Setting

100

The author's purpose for writing a nonfiction book about animals.

To inform?

100

Simile or metaphor?

The drink was as cold as ice.

simile

100
This part of speech is a person, place, thing.
What is a noun?
200

What is summary?

What the story is about in your own words

200

The person telling the story is called?

Narrator

200

What kind of noun means more than one?

plural

200

It is raining cats and dogs. 

What is this an example of?

 

Idiom

200

This part of speech is an action.

What is a verb?

300

Pictures/photographs, diagrams, subheadings, captions, sidebars, and maps are all examples of...

Text features

300

What is theme?

The lesson of the story
300

The list of chapters and what page they're on at the front of the book.

Table of Contents

300

Simile or metaphor?

The cat's fur was a blanket


Metaphor

300

What is the difference between a prefix and a suffix?

A prefix is added to the beginning of a word while a suffix is added at the end of a word

400

How do you know that the text structure of a passage is chronological order?

There are MANY dates or has transition words such as: first, next, then, last

400

How can you know a text is fictional?

It'll have something that is not real like animals talking or a drawing instead of a photograph

400

What is called when to words are similar?

ex: cold and chilly

Synonym

400

What is an hyperbole?

An exaggeration/dramatic

400

CORRECT THE SENTENCE with the correct capitalization and punctuation

ms. forster announced, The pacific ocean borders california?

Ms. Forster announced, the Pacific Ocean borders California.

500

How can you find the author's purpose?

Through the central idea, it'll be the reason the author wrote it
500

What is a plot?

Problem and solution OR rising action, climax, resolution

500

What is a word that means the opposite of called?

ex: on and off

Antonym

500
The trees whistled in the wind


That is an example of what type of figurative language?

Personifcation

500

Correct the sentence with the correct punctuation.

The movie starts in 5 minutes said Sue so let's hurry and get popcorn fast!

"The movie starts in 5 minutes," said Sue. "So let's hurry and get popcorn fast!"