Vocabulary
The broken toy is a_________ (problem, solution, gift, kindness)
Problem
How many beats are in this sentence:
"My sis and I keep busy"
7 beats
How is a dictionary organized?
In alphabetical order
What is the difference between an autobiography and a biography?
Autobiography is a story about a real person's life, written by the person.
Biography is a story about a real person's life, written by someone else.
The principals speech made a big _______ (benefit, impact, individual, noise)
Impact
How are poems organized?
In stanzas
This part of the dictionary tells you what the word means - what is that called?
A definition
What are key words that help you determine if a story is written in first-person narrator?
My, Mine, I, Me
I clean the garbage in our park to _______ it. (want, value, improve, learn)
Improve
What is the rhyme scheme of the following poem:
"It's snowing hard in our small town
big flakes of snow are drifting down
But since this is a weekend day
my friends and I go out to play."
A A B B
dark (dark) adjective having little or no light
What part of speech is this word?
Adjective
What are key words that help you determine if a story is written in third-person narrator?
He, she, his, hers, yours, him, her
One _______ of books is that you learn something new. (action, benefit, problem, kindness)
Benefit
Which of the following phrases includes colorful language?
A. Work on the project together.
B. I see the melted butter on top of the warm syrup and it makes my mouth water - I cant wait to take a bite into my breakfast.
C. I saw the snow falling down when I was looking outside of my window.
B
Put the following words in alphabetical order
From, Free, Friend
Free, Friend, From
Think back to our story "The World's Greatest Underachiever". How does Henry feel before his spelling test and how does he feel after?
**Hint: Look on page 47 in your reading book.
Henry feels confident spelling the first word, after the next 3 words he gets upset because he can't remember how to spell them.
My aunt is a _________ at the animal shelter. (improve, gift, duty, volunteer)
Volunteer
How are poems and stories different?
Stories are organized into paragraphs, poems are organized into stanzas.
Hear, gold, apple, art, asleep, friend, free, from
No he is incorrect, the correct order is
1. Apple
2. Art
3. Asleep
4. Free
5. Friend
6. From
7. Gold
8. Hear
Open your reading book and read the introduction on page 42. Is this written in first-person or third-person? How do you know?
Third-person, because the writer used words like "he" and "his" in the paragraph.