Figurative Language
Inferencing
Text Features
Context Clues
Point of View
Vocabulary
Theme
100
List 3 kinds of figurative language
Hyperbole, simile, metaphor, alliteration, onomatopoeia, idiom, personification, imagery
100
What could you inference if someone is carrying an umbrella outside?
It's raining.
100
What are text features?
They are extras in a story that give us more information.
100
In the sentence "The kitten was famished and gobbled its food," what does "famished" most likely mean?
It means that it was hungry
100
What is point of view?
Who is telling the story.
100
What does emergency mean?
It is when something serious happens and you need immediate help.
100
What is theme?
The message of the story.
200
What is figurative language?
Using words in a creative way that does not mean the exact, literal thing.
200
Sammy's lunchbox is empty and his face looks sad after recess. What can you infer happened?
He forgot to pack his lunch.
He's still hungry.
200
What are 3 kinds of text features?
Tables, Labels, Definitions
200
Use context to choose the meaning of "rumpled" in: "He smoothed the rumpled paper before writing." (a) neat (b) wrinkled (c) colorful
b-wrinkled
200
If a story uses the words "I" and "we," what point of view is it told from?
first person
200
What does illustrate mean?
To draw something.
200
Name one way you can find the theme to the story.
Find the message that the author is trying to teach us.
What did the character learn?
300
What kind of figurative language is this? She was as quiet as a mouse.
Simile
300
What is inferencing?
When you use clues from the story and what you already know to figure out something the author does not say directly.
It’s like being a reading detective. You put clues together to make a smart guess.
300
What kind of text feature is this?
Table
300
What are the different kinds of context clues?
Definition, examples, synonyms, contrast
300
Explain the difference between first person and third person point of view in one sentence.
first is someone in the story telling it. Third is someone watching from the outside and telling it.
300
Use the word pesky in a sentence
My little brother is pesky.
300
What is the theme: "A story about a child who shares toys and everyone becomes friends."
It is important for us to share. Sharing helps you make friends.
400
What kind of figurative language is this? I have told you a million times.
Hyperbole
400
Two characters stop playing and sit quietly when an older woman enters the room. What can you infer about how the characters feel toward the woman?
They don't like her.
They think she's weird.
They were saying mean things about her.
400
What kind of text feature is at the beginning of a book and tells us what pages to find certain topics on?
Table of Contents
400
"The coach yelled, 'Huddle up!' The players quickly formed a small circle and listened." What does "huddle" mean here? Explain the clue that tells you.
Huddle means to gather in a small circle. The clue that helped me was "They formed a small circle and listened."
400
Give me example of first person point of view.
I went to the store with my mom.
400
Use the word snarled in a sentence.
My mom helped me when my hair was snarled.
400
Explain the difference between the topic and the theme of a story in one sentence.
A topic is one word about what the story is about while the theme tells us what the author is teaching us through the story.
500
Give me an example of alliteration.
Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickeled Peppers
She sells sea shells by the sea shore
Anything else.
500
After reading a scene where a character secretly practices a speech at night and avoids friends, infer why the character is acting this way and explain why.
They are practicing really hard for their class, test, or scene in a play. You see this because they aren't talking to their friends because they don't want to get distracted.
500
Name 3 things that you can learn from text features.
Information about the story. What something is, what a word means, data that people have gathered, etc.
500
"The ancient trunk creaked when opened; its tarnished lock barely held." Use context clues to explain what "tarnished" means.
Tarnished means that it is rusty and old. I know this because ancient means old and it wasn't working well.
500
Give an example of third person point of view.
Johnny went to the store with his mom.
500
Make a sentence with 2 of our vocabulary words in the same sentence.
My mismatched socks showed my fun personality.
500
What is the theme in the story "The Boy Who Cried Wolf"
We shouldn't tell lies because then when we try to tell the truth, nobody will believe us.