Realistic Fiction Elements
What point of view uses the words "I", "my", "our", and "we"?
1st person
If participate means "to take part in", what does the word participator mean?
Someone who takes part in something
What r-controlled vowel sound is in the word mother?
/ar/, /er/, /or/
r-Controlled /er/ sound
What is the final stable syllable in table?
consonant -le, -tion, or -sion
"ble" or consonant -le
Fix this sentence for subject-verb agreement:
She am excited to go to the movies.
She is excited to go to the movies.
I am excited to go to the movies.
What words are used in a story told from the third person point of view?
He, she, they, his, hers
Name 2 words related to the word conflict.
Which pair has the same r-controlled vowel sound?
march/purple or dirt/nurse
dirt and nurse both have the /er/ sound
Examples include: friction, potion, connection, revolution
Give the past tense form for these 3 verbs:
eat, sleep, cry
eat -> ate
sleep -> slept
cry -> cried
What is the resolution in a realistic fiction story?
The resolution is when the main conflict or problem is solved.
Name 3 words related to the word courage.
Examples include: courageous, encourage, courageously, discourage, encourager,
Give an example of a word that uses the r-controlled er vowel sound.
Examples include: river, father, shirt, dirty, turn, curl
Break apart the word moment into syllables using the VC/V or V/CV pattern based on its vowel sound.
mo/ment
v/cv because it has a long o vowel sound.
Which sentence uses a prepositional phrase:
She walked home after school.
She walked home.
She walked home after school.
What is the climax in a realistic fiction story?
The climax is when the character faces the big problem or challenge in the story, it is also called the turning point.
What are the words in this sentence that contain silent letters?
She knew it was wrong to lie about stealing the garden gnome.
knew, wrong, gnome
Which pair has the same r-controlled vowel sound?
format/board or herd/fort
format/board have the /or/ sound
Break apart the word habit into syllables using the VC/V or V/CV pattern based on its vowel sound.
hab/it
vc/v because it has a short a vowel sound
Give 3 examples of verbs that need an -ed ending to be past tense.
Examples include: jump/jumped, talk/talked, yell/yelled, skip/skipped, play/played
Figurative language: What is a simile? What is a metaphor?
Both similes and metaphor compare two things. Similes use the words "like" and "as" and metaphors do not.
Examples include: knight, know, knot, knock, knit
Give an example of a word that uses the r-controlled ar vowel sound.
Examples include: start, alarm, party, star, far
Divide report and salad into their syllables.
re/port (v/cv) and sal/ad (vc/v)
Change "My sister is eating her dinner" to the past progressive tense.
"My sister was eating her dinner."
Change is to was.