| Grammar | ||
| #1 | What kind of words are these? "Freezing" and "Cold" | synonyms |
| #2 | Identify the root word in "unlikely" | like |
| #3 | Identify the adjective and the verb in this sentence: "Usually, I don't eat milk chocolate." | milk, eat |
| #4 | Tell the antonym of the word "low" | high |
| #5 | What two affixes can you identify in the word "unsuccessful" | un, ful |
| Close Reading | ||
| #1 | Tell the setting and main character in the story "Peter Pan" | Neverland, Peter Pan |
| #2 | What is dialogue in a book? | Dialogue is anytime a character speaks or has a conversation in a story. |
| #3 | What is the conflict in the story, "Cinderella"? | The step mother and step sisters want to keep Cinderella as a servant, but the prince wants to marry her. |
| #4 | Tell who the audience is in this text and how the audience affects the language used: "Dear Penpal Anna, I know we haven't met, but I feel like I know you well because of our letters, lol. This week I am going to start ballet classes. I'm excited, because usually my parents make me do instrument lessons in the summer and I don't feel like that is fun. Do you like instruments? OMG, I forgot to tell you that last week at school it was raining and I slipped in the mud. I had a brown spot on my pants all day. SO embarrassing! Your Friend, Penny | the penpal |
| #5 | What type of text is a newspaper article about the next outer space expedition? | informational or non-fiction |
| Writing | ||
| #1 | What type of statement is this? "I think homework is not necessary because we already do too much work at school everyday." | opinion |
| #2 | When a writer gives details to prove that something is true, they are giving ____________. | evidence |
| #3 | If you use someone else's words in your writing, that is called a ________. | |
| #4 | Revise this sentence: After reading the autobiography of the first person who discovered gold, I inference finding gold is hard because many thing is nature are fool's gold and not real gold. | inference should be "infer" |
| #5 | Summarize this passage: "Giddy-up, cowboys and girls! In the Southwest during early half of the 1800s, cows were only worth 2 or 3 dollars a piece. They roamed wild, grazed off of the open range, and were abundant. Midway through the century though, railroads were built and the nation was connected. People could suddenly ship cows in freight trains to the Northeast, where the Yankees had a growing taste for beef. Out of the blue, the same cows that were once worth a couple of bucks were now worth between twenty and forty dollars each, if you could get them to the train station. It became pretty lucrative to wrangle up a drove of cattle and herd them to the nearest train town, but it was at least as dangerous as it was profitable. Cowboys were threatened at every turn. They faced cattle rustlers, stampedes and extreme weather, but kept pushing those steers to the train station. By the turn of the century, barbed wire killed the open range and some may say the cowboy too, but it was the train that birthed him." | In the early 1800's, cattle were cheap and easy to find. There became a bigger demand for them as food and people started to transport them across the country, sometimes facing danger. Cattle changed from cheap to expensive, and from free to fenced up. |
| Critical Thinking | ||
| #1 | Draw a conclusion about this statement: Astronauts who live in space experience body changes including muscle loss because there is no gravity. They must do special exercises to stay healthy. Astronauts also live most of the time inside a space vessel, not experiencing nature. Traveling to space is dangerous and much of space is still unexplored. | Being an astronaut is not easy and takes courage. |
| #2 | Give an example from nature of cause and effect. | various answers could be correct |
| #3 | What is the end result of a story, argument or event? | conclusion |
| #4 | compare and contrast summer and fall. | Summer and Fall are both seasons, and both contain holidays. School is in fall and not summer. Summer and fall have different weather. Plants grow in summer and begin to change in fall by losing their leaves or beginning to hibernate. |
| #5 | Give an opinion and support it with details: What is your opinion on screen time for kids? Should it be allowed? How much? Use relevant information to support your opinion. | various answers could be correct |
| Definitions | ||
| #1 | What word means "to revise or correct" | edit |
| #2 | define "elaborate" | to add details or tell more about a topic |
| #3 | What is a narrative? | a story, real or imagined |
| #4 | Define "plot" | The main events of a story (introduction, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, conclusion) |
| #5 | This tells why the author has written about something. Is it to inform, entertain, or persuade? | author's purpose |
| Final Question | |
| Tell three transitional words or phrases. | first, next, last, then, finally, additionally, similarly . . . |