(Sam takes the ball to the half court line as Marcus prepares to defend the basket)
What are stage directions?
100
A poem that tells a story
What is a narrative poem?
100
The author wrote this book to entertain, inform or persuade
What is the main purpose or author's purpose?
100
A complete group of sentences that cover the beginning, middle and end of what the selection is about.
What is a summary?
100
______________________ is when you use your strategies to find the answer
What is text evidence
200
A person who tells the story of events - It seems like he or she is looking in on the selection
What is a narrator
200
A poem that tells a story about a person
What is a biographical poem?
200
The author includes one of the following:
description
sequence
compare & contrast
problem and solution
What is how the author organizes or structures a text?
200
A _________________ can be proven
An ________________ is what someone thinks
What is fact & opinion
200
A type of author's purpose where the AP is to tell information
What is another way of saying to tell...
To reveal or to show
300
A person who writes a play
What is a playwright?
300
an arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually four or more, sometimes having a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme,
What is a stanza?
300
What the paragraph, paragraphs, or selection are mostly about
What is main idea
300
the act of SOLVING a conflict
What is resolution or solution
300
The reader will need to infer to determine the author's idea or meaning he or she wants to the reader to understand
What is the message, lesson or theme
400
The surroundings or environment of anything - the time or place
What is the setting?
400
A verse that does not follow a fixed pattern
What is free verse
400
The type of text you are reading is called
What is genre.
400
When the reader reaches a CONCLUSION based on the evidence from the passage
What is to infer or make an inference
400
The author wants to give emphasis to the important part of the passage - What does the author express to make us think?
What is to emphasize
500
A synonym for PROBLEM in a story between two or more characters.
What is conflict?
500
A person that composes a poem
What is a poet?
500
The reader uses information around the word or sentence to determine the answer.
What is finding clues or drawing conclusions.
500
the most intense, exciting, or important part of the story - the turning point in a plot
What is climax
500
When the reader reads at a steady rate...
The reader will read a passage and think about the information, answer the questions and give themselves a break between texts