Context Clues
What does the word remote mean as it is used above?
Remote means far away or distant.
What is a simile?
Comparing one thing to another using like or as
What is dialogue?
The words said by the characters or the conversations between characters.
What is the difference between a singular and plural noun?
A singular noun is one thing and a plural noun is multiple.
Son: I promise I won't stay up late! (the boy had a scheme to hide his iPad under his pillow)
Mom: If you stay up late on your electronics I will have to take them away.
What does the word scheme mean as it is used above?
Scheme means to plan
What is an idiom?
An idiom is an expressions that means something different than what it actually says.
What are stage directions?
Written instructions telling actors what to do.
Correct the sentence below.
our team work hard on all of our worksheets and projects
Our team works hard on all of our worksheets and projects.
You need to restrain yourself from calling out in the middle of a lesson
What does the word restrain mean?
To stop yourself from doing something.
"It's raining cats and dogs" is an example of what type of figurative language?
Idiom
Read the lines from a scene below:
Son: I promise I won't stay up late! (the boy had a scheme to hide his iPad under his pillow)
Mom: If you stay up late on your electronics I will have to take them away.
What do the stage directions suggest about the boy?
The boy is planning on staying up late and playing on his iPad, even though he told his mom he would not stay up late.
Make the nouns below plural.
1. Man
2. Loaf
3. Key
4. Fly
1. Men
2. Loaves
3. Keys
4. Flies
"The wind whispered secrets through the trees"
What type of figurative language is this?
Personification
(Mrs. Kelly happily skips off the stage, singing her favorite song)
What is Mrs. Kelly's mood? How do the stage directions help show how Mrs. Kelly is feeling?
Mrs. Kelly is happy or excited. The stage directions show this because it tells her to happily skip and sing a song she loves.