Vocabulary
What is a noun?
a person, place or thing
What the passage is mostly about?
Central Idea
What does moral of a story mean?
The lesson of the story.
Which testing strategy involves eliminating choices you know are not correct?
Slash the Trash
Describe how to compare and contrast
Find the similarities and differences between two topics
What does fiction mean?
fake story
How a character changes throughout a passage?
Character Development
What is main idea and key details?
What the story is mostly about and what supports the main idea
What is the Authors Purpose of a text? (3 ways)
Persuade, Inform, or Entertain
What are character traits?
How a character thinks, feels, or behaves through actions in the story.
What is first person POV?
When the narrator is part of the story.
What is the first thing we do when reading a passage?
Annotate.
What does compare and contrast mean?
To find similarities and differences.
context clues
What is Author's Point of View?
The author's thoughts and feelings on a topic are explained in the passage
what does the word nonfiction mean?
A genre of writing that is "not fake" real informational text
What text structure incudes times, dates, and sequence?
Chronology
What is an extreme exaggeration?
Hyperbole
What is personification?
When animals or living things act like people?
What is an idiom?
Does use the literal meaning or does not mean what it says?
What is a synonym for text or story?
passage
What a character's behavior tells you about them?
Character Traits
What is the difference between a CAUSE and an EFFECT ?
The cause is why it happened, and the effect is what happened.
It's raining outside, so I used my umbrella.
What is a simile?
It compares two things using like or as
What is a theme?
A broad idea that is throughout the story.