Using what you learned from the text to make a LOGICAL and/or REASONABLE GUESS at what will happen NEXT
What is a Prediction?
100
This relates to Fiction. There are four categories including Realistic Fiction, Historical Fiction, Science Fiction, and Fantasy.
What are Sub-Genres?
100
A series of events
What is Plot?
100
A text written to inform a reader about a topic is called what...?
What is Expository?
(I would also have taken INFORMATIONAL TEXT)
200
Missing either the Subject or the Predicate
What is a Fragment?
200
Another word for Background Knowledge
What is Schema?
200
Fictional narratives, with fictional characters and/or events, which can actually happen in reality
What is Realistic Fiction?
200
The time and place of a narrative
What is Setting?
200
There are three ways to do this: Persuade, Inform, and/or Entertain. What is this called?
What is Author's Purpose?
300
Occurs when two or more simple sentences are joined without a connecting word or punctuation.
What is a Run-On?
300
A category in which a work (movie, song, text) is classified
(HINT: Remember when I played the two songs for you COUNTRY+RAP)
What is Genre?
300
Imagine if the man who wrote the Declaration of Independence was your father... and your slave master? Jefferson's biracial sons do get special treatment but they must keep the identity of their father a secret. Will they ever be free?
Jefferson's Sons by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley is an example of which sub-genre?
What is Historical Fiction?
300
The stage of the plot where the CONFLICT is introduced?
What is Rising Action?
300
This is the overall idea of the text
What is the Main Idea?
400
Listing details, examples, ideas in sets of at least three to add information
What is Listing in Threes?
400
Three Ways to do this...
Text to Self
Text to Text
Text to World
What is Making Connections?
400
The Earth is under attack from Alien buggers who are poised for a final assault. The survival of the human species depends on a military genius who can defeat the buggers. But who? A child named Ender Wiggin.
Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game is an example of which sub-genre?
What is Science Fiction?
400
An imaginary animal, creature, and/or person in a narrative text
What is a Character?
400
This is additional information which defines, explains, or proves the Main Idea
What are Supporting Details?
500
A word/phrase in a sentence found after the subject that describes more about the subject
(Hint: Describes the noun; Surrounded by commas)
What is an Appositive?
500
When authors do NOT tell readers something about the characters and/or events, and readers have to use CONTEXT CLUES and/or BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE to make an ...
What is an Inference?
500
A magical elixir cured Janie of her homesickness after moving from Los Angeles to London, but now the local apothecary who created it has disappeared! Can she find him-before his other more deadly potions fall into the wrong hands?
Maile Meloy's The Apothecary is an example of which sub-genre?
What is Fantasy?
500
Something you have to INFER about the character, conflict, or plot using the author's context clues and your background knowledge
What is INDIRECT Characterization?
500
List the 5 Text Structure Organizational Patterns for Expository Text.
What is Description, Compare and Contrast, Sequence (Chronological), Problem and Solution, and Cause and Effect?