4Th Grade Review Sheet

5th Grade Review Sheet

1. What features will you see in a poem? Stanzas, lines, and sometimes rhymes
2. What features will you see in a play? List of characters, script, costumes, props, directions, setting
3. What features will you see in an article?Written in columns, headings, true information
4. What is the difference between fiction and nonfiction? Nonfiction is true and gives facts, fiction – made up story, not true
5. What is an antonym for the word sleep? awake
6. What is a synonym for word tired? Sleepy, exhausted, drowsy, worn-out
7. What are context clues? Clues the author uses to help you figure out the meaning of words you don’t know.
8. What is the setting of a story? When and where a story takes place
9. What is the plot of a story? What happens in the story
10. What is the conflict in the story? The problem
11. What is the difference between the main characters and other characters? The main characters are who the story is mostly about. You don’t see the other characters as often in the story.
12. Which point of view is being told by one of the characters? first
13. Why does an author use text features? 1. To make things stand out or pop 2. To make it easier to find information 3. To organize
14. List 4 text features an author may use to organize a passage? Boldface type, italics, underlined words, all caps, glossary, index, table of contents, pictures, captions, charts, bullets, numbers, headings, title, ………..
15. What is the difference between fact and opinion? Fact can be proven, opinion is what someone thinks or believes
16. If the prefix “re” means “again”, what does the word reexamine mean? To examine again
17. What are compound words? Give me one example. Two words put together to make one word – Playground, outside, toenail, someone, basketball
18. What is sequence? The order in which things happen
19. What do you need to include when giving the main idea of a passage?Who what where when why
20. What are inferences? To draw a conclusion based on what you know or have read. To take a guess
21. What are the four reasons an author has for writing? 1. Inform 2. Persuade 3. Entertain 4. express feeling
22. What are captions? Where are they located? Tell you about a picture, located somewhere around the picture. (could be above, below, or beside)
23. What is a glossary? Small dictionary for meanings of words in a book. Located in the back of the book.
24. Write a sentence with a cause and effect. I fell off of a tree and broke my arm.
25. What does the prefix un mean? unfair, unavailable, undonenot
26. What are synonyms? Words that mean the same
27. What are antonyms? Words that mean the opposite
28. What is the suffix in the word quickly? ly
29. What type of genre is true and gives facts and information? nonfiction
30. What type of genre is written in lines and stanzas often rhyming? poetry
31. Biology (bahyl-ol-uh-jee) What does the information in parenthesis tell you about the word? How to pronounce it
32. What is the difference between being informative and being persuasive? Informative is just giving information, persuasive is trying to get them to do something