Characters Change

Unit Review Sheet

Facts and Definitions

Lesson 1: What's in a Name

• Names always begin with capital letters.
• The suffix (end of a word) "-less" means "without" (painless, helpless, useless)
• The suffix (end of a word) "-ful" means "full of" (painful, helpful, useful)

Lesson 2: Why Worry?

• A conjunction is a word that joins together words and ideas.
• "And" and "but" are examples of conjunctions.

Lesson 3: Is It a Problem?

• Personification is when an author makes an object or idea do things a person might do.
• Idioms are creative phrases that don't mean what they actually say but mean something else.

Lesson 4: Comparing Characters

• A Venn diagram is a graphic you can use to compare and contrast two things.
• A summary is a short description of a story that includes only the main points of the story.
• When something causes something else to happen we call it a cause.
• The result of a cause is called the effect.

Lesson 5: The Raft

• The setting is the place where the story happens.
• The characters are the people or animals in a story.

Lesson 6: Positive and Negative Change

• Cause and effect situations can result in positive change or negative change.

Final Project: My Own Story

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