Genre
Groups of lines, arranged in stanzas, and often end in rhyming words.
Poetry
What are the 5 vowels?
a, e, i, o, u
what do nouns name?
a person, place or thing
What are the people in a story or play called?
characters
a story that is fiction, but has characters, setting, and a problem that could be true.
Realistic Fiction
What are the letters of the alphabet, that are not vowels, called?
consonants
True or False: A sentence is a complete thought with a subject and a verb
True
The part of the story that tells where and when something is happening
setting
Text written to inform or explain a topic and to give facts and details about people, places, events, or ideas
Informational Text
What are the sound units of a word called?
phonemes
True or false: a fragment is an incomplete thought that is missing a subject, a verb, or both, and cannot stand alone.
True
What writing element do you need to do when you answer a question?
Repeat or restate the question in your answer.
A short story that often begins "Once upon a time..."
Fairytale
True or false? A short vowel says it's name.
false
What part of the sentence that shows action
predicate
What are the "paragraphs" in a poem are called?
stanzas
True stories written about real people.
biography
What do you call two consonants that work together to make one sound?
digraph
The part of a sentence that tells who or what.
subject
Name two reasons an Author may have for writing.
to entertain the reader or to give the reader information