5th Grade ELA Review
What are the people in stories referred to as?
What are....characters?
How many hours of sleep should you get the night before the test?
What is 8 hours?
This is when two words mean the same or similar thing?
What is a synonym?
What is author's purpose? What is author's message?
Purpose- Why
Message-Lesson
What two types of conflict are there in a story
What is internal/external
What is the name of the person who writes the story?
what is the author
What time should you get to school on test days?
What is.....No later than 8:00 AM
This figurative language is being used in this sentence “The boy was like a lion because he was so courageous”
What is a Simile?
Number of continents in the world
What is 7?
This is a short version of the story that includes just the important details.
What is the summary?
The vocabulary words listed in the back of the book is called?
What is a Glossary
What do you do if you don't know the answer to a question?
What is skip it and come back to it later? OR Make an educated guess.
This is what you call a book that talks about a person’s life from beginning to end
What is an Biography?
Daily Double:
This word is the name for sound words. Ex. Bang, Boom, Crash"
Onomatopoeia
What text structure would I use when teaching someone how to bake a cake.
What is....Sequence/Steps/Chronological
What the author is trying to teach you?
What is theme.
The multiple choice questions on a test are the fastest part and you should rush through it. True or False?
What is....False. Take your time!
What does sensory details include?
What is details that help you see, hear, smell, taste and feel
I'm part a whole but not the same, I can tell the size or portion you claim. In pizza or pie, I come into play. What am I?
A Fraction.
When the story is told from the perspective of the narrator, using words like "I" or "me"
What is first person?
Non-fiction means...
What is...The story is true
You should skip every question you don't know and never go back to it. True or False?
What is false?
DAILY DOUBLE!! This is what you call a story you write about your own life.
What is an Autobiography
What is the preposition in the sentence below.
Every year, we dance with my friends near the big pond.
Preposition: Near
A picture with labels is called what in a nonfiction book?
What is a diagram.
Fiction means...
What is....A story is not real
What should you do if you are answering multiple-choice questions?
What is.....Process of Elimination
This is a genre of literature that is based on people, events and worlds that are not true, often featuring talking animals or magic
What is Fantasy?
What part of math deals with shapes?
What is Geometry.
Every sentence needs these 2 things to be complete?
What is....subject/verb
What the text is mainly about?
What is....Main idea
How many sentences should you have in a writing prompt for each paragraph?
What is 3-5 sentences?
What is an adjective?
Describes a noun
I turn sunlight into food, I'm not a chef but what I do is good. In leaves, I take hold, for green plants of old. What am I?
What is Photosynthesis.
What is the last story element of the plot called?
What is....resolution
What do we call the "good guy/girl" of a story?
What do we call the "bad guy/girl" of a story?
What is Protagonist /Antagonist
What process should you use when answering multiple-choice questions?
What is....Process Of Elimination.
This is what we call a short statement of the main points of a story.
What is main idea or central idea?
I roar from the ground, ash thrown high; lava is my blood, and smoke fills the sky. What am I?
What is a Volcano.
To describe how things are alike and how they are different
What is compare and contrast?
Which narrator point of view puts YOU the reader in the story?
What is 2nd person point of you
Should you highlight or underline things in your test that stand out to you?
What is....YES!!!!!!
What does the theme tell you?
What is....The lesson learned or the author's message
I dance with words in rhythms that flow, where rhymes can match and feelings show. What am I?
What is Poetry.
What do we call an extreme exaggeration in writing?
What is....hyperbole.
Give an example of both a simile and a metaphor
Answers may vary
What do you need to do on the test for Ms. Denny to be proud of you?
What is take my time and do my best
Setting tells what two things?
What is.....Time and Place
What is inferencing?
What is.....Use what you already know and what the text says to make an educated guess about the text.
Why is it good to read the questions a passage has BEFORE reading the passage?
What is so you know what kind of things to be looking for when you are reading.