Fiction
Poetry
Expository
Drama
Strategies
100
Where and when the story takes place.
What is the setting?
100
Is made up of lines. Is considered to be the paragraphs of a poem.
What are stanzas?
100
Persuade, inform, and entertain.
What is P.I.E.?
100
Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.
What are the plot elements?
100
Where I find the definitions of the words I underlined while reading.
What is a dictionary?
200

A conflict that has the main character facing an emotion or feeling.

What is internal conflict?
200
When words end with similar sounds. This most often occurs at the end of lines but can also occur in the middle.
What is rhyme?
200

A written collection of the main ideas and supporting details in a text.

What is a summary?

200
The people present in the play.
What are characters?
200
The second step of our reading strategies.
What is paraphrasing?
300
The point where the problem has reached its point of highest tension. The turning point of a story.
What is the climax?
300
My brother is as blind as a bat.
What is a simile?
300
A text designed to convince the reader of the writer's opinion.
What is a persuasive text?
300
The character that opposes the main character in a play/story.
Who is the antagonist?
300
Title, Paraphrase, Connotation, Attitude, Shifts, Title, Theme
What is TPCASTT?
400
A side story that supports the main story. It is repeated through out the text.
What is subplot?
400
My mother is an angel.
What is a metaphor?
400
A text designed to provide the reader with information.
What is an informational text?
400
The good/main character in a story.
Who is the protagonist?
400

Title, heading, introduction, every first question, visuals, end of text questions, summary

What is T.H.I.E.V.E.S.?
500

the subject of  a piece of writing; a topic. It can be found by defining the topic and then identifying what the text says about the topic. The lesson learned.

What is theme?
500
Language that contains figures of speech; such as, metaphors, similes, hyperbole, personification, and imagery.
What is figurative language?
500
A text structure that explains what happened and what caused it to happen.
What is cause and effect?
500
Written instructions for the actors/characters to follow.
What are stage directions?
500
Read the questions first.
What is the first step of our reading strategies?
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