5th Grade Language Arts SGO

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To find the main idea of a section you are reading

• predict
• summarize
• metacognitive
• ask a question

Author's Purpose: A list of the 25 richest athletes in the world.

• Entertain
• Persuade
• Inform

Synonymns are words that

• sound the same with different spelling
• sound the same with different meaning
• have opposite meaning
• have the same meaning

Which word BEST completes the sentence below? We will _____ the water to make tea.

• bull
• bail
• boil
• bowl

Which type of text structure shows how two or more things are same and different.

• Problem & Solution
• Chronological
• Compare & Contrast
• Cause & Effect

What do good readers do when they are reading?

• Visualize while they are reading.
• Just keep reading even if it doesn't make sense.
• Wonder why their teacher loves the color purple.
• Talk to their mom about what they are going to do over the weekend.

Which best describes a summary?

• the entire text told in your own words
• a really long detailed piece of writing
• a dumb thing that the teacher makes you write
• the main ideas and important details of a text

The theme of a story is

• summarizing the text
• a lesson learned from the story
• plot
• the most important detail