Nouns
My dad loves to read.
What is dad
Monica threw the ball across the field.
What is threw
Definition of noun.
Person, place, or thing
The strong athlete help his team win the game.
What is strong
What is textual evidence?
Words from the text that support your answer.
The crowded mall was a nightmare.
What is mall.
Friends sometimes argue when they spend too much time together.
What is argue and spend
Definition of adjective
A word that describes a noun
The sun feels very warm today.
What is warm
Why is textual evidence important?
It helps support your answer.
Peter's honesty allowed him to stay out of trouble at school.
What is Peter and school
He was angry when it rained and yelled all afternoon.
What is yelled
Definition of pronoun
Words that take the place of a noun or nouns
He became even more eager to take to the skies.
What is eager
What is the definition of theme?
The life lesson of a story.
Carmine and I liked to tell scary stories on Halloween.
What is Carmine, stories, and Halloween
The teacher has corrected my poor grammar.
What is has corrected
Definition of verb
An action word or state of being
When the old, gray haired man died, he left money to his grieving family.
What is old, gray haired, and grieving
What is the theme of Boar Out There?
Not everything is as it seems.
Don't judge someone by how they look.
Be brave and face your fears.
The clock seemed to go by quickly while she was watching television.
What is time and television
My father must have thought I could swim.
What is must have thought and could swim
What are these words examples of? He, she, we, they, her, him
Pronouns
Susan became more and more tense as she studied for her parts of speech test.
What is tense and parts of speech
What is an inference?
An educated guess about a topic. A prediction.