4th Grade ELA 1
What are the people in stories referred to as?
what are characters?
This is when 2 words means the same thing
What is a synonym?
What are the three reasons an author writes? (What is their purpose?
What is to entertain, persuade, or inform.
What is the name of the person who writes the story?
This figurative language is being used in this sentence “The boy was like a lion because he was so courageous”
What is a Simile?
This is a short version of the story that includes just the important details.
What is the summary?
What text structure tells how something happened and why?
What is cause and effect
When the story is being told from an outside narrator
What is third-person point of view
What text structure would I use when teaching someone how to bake a cake.
Sequence/Steps/Chronological
What the author is trying to teach you?
What is theme.
What does sensory details include?
What is details that help you see, hear, smell, taste and feel
When the story is told from the perspective of the narrator, using words like "I" or "me"
What is first person?
Non-fiction means...
The story is true
What perspective would an interview or autobiography be from?
What is a first-hand account
A picture with labels is called what in a nonfiction book?
What is a diagram.
Fiction means...
A story is not real
The first step when identifying main idea.
What is look at the title, the headings, repeated words, or the first and last sentence.
The parts of a drama that let the actors/cast know what to do.
Stage directions
What the story is mainly about?
Main idea
What is an adjective?
Describes a noun
What is the ending of a story called?
resolution
Name 3 character traits
This is what we call a short statement of the main points of a story.
What is main idea or central idea?
To describe how things are alike and how they are different
What is compare and contrast?
How the author feels about a topic is known as...
What is the author's point of view or perspective?
What does the theme tell you?
The lesson learned or the author's message
What are the paragraphs in a poem called? and what are the sentences called?
Stanzas and Lines
Give an example of both a simile and a metaphor
Answers may vary
Setting tells what two things?
Time and Place
Name one type of text feature.
headings/title/subtitles/pictures/graphs/sidebars/captions