?
I forgot my umbrella at school so I got soaked on my way home.
A. Compare/contrast
B. Problem/solution
C. Cause/effect
C. Cause/effect
What can you look at to find the main topic of a text?
The title
1 example of punctuation
Periods, commas, colons, etc.
What a story is all about ...
The Main Idea
What is wrong with the following sentence?
The twins jumped on the bed and bumped there heads.
"There" should be "their."
A story that is not real, the story is made up.
Fiction, fantasy
What is the adverb in this sentence?
The dog ran upstairs when the storm struck.
upstairs (location)
The list of chapter titles in the front of a book is called the _______
Table of Contents
What is a contraction
Two words put together using an apostrophe to shorten the word.
Opinion or fact?
The beach is way more fun than the pool.
An Opinion
The girl found a multitude of baseball cards in an old shoe box.
What does Multitude mean?
A. Dirty
B. Many
C. Dusty
B. Many
A person who writes a book
An author
The action word of a sentence ...
Verb
When and where a story takes place ...
Setting
What is the contraction of had not?
Hadn't
Which author's purpose: The author tries to convince the reader to do/try something?
Persuade
What does "cultivate" mean in this sentence?
He tried hard to cultivate an air of royalty, but his shabby jeans betrayed him.
To try to create or develop
A story written just for fun is written to _______
entertain
Grand, pink, gigantic, eclectic
These words are examples of what part of speech?
Adjectives
The events that lead up to the climax are called the ______ action
Rising Action
What are compound words?
Two or more root words are merged into a new and different word.
To find the differences and similarities between the two texts is called?
comparing and contrasting
What does "boycott" mean in this sentence?
The students decided to boycott the football game in response to the players' bullying of others.
To avoid, withdraw, not go
A text written about the life of another person
biography
Does this sentence need an adjective or a noun?
Claire's _______ dog loves to go to the park.
What is an adjective?
What is another word for the moral of a story?
lesson, theme
The past tense of swim
Swam
What is the difference between a fact and an opinion?
A fact is a true statement that has evidence to support it. An opinion is not always true and is your personal belief.
What does "prominent" mean?
The woman was a prominent member of the city council and demanded to have the bill passed.
Important, leading, famous
The person who draws the pictures for a book
illustrator