Genres
The characters and events are made up but could really happen
What is realistic fiction?
Use this reference resource to find the definition or a word
What is a dictionary?
Who the story is mostly about
What is the main character?
This type of text structure includes something that is wrong or needs to be fixed and a way to fix the problem.
What is problem and solution?
To use what I know and what the story says to figure out what is happening or how a character is feeling
What is an inference?
Used to separate the items or materials in a list
What is are bullets?
A word with the same or similar meaning as another word
What is a synonym?
This type of story usually has talking animals and always teaches a lesson or moral.
What is a fable?
Use this reference resource to find synonyms and antonyms for a word
What is a thesaurus?
Where and when a story takes place
What is setting?
This type of text structure includes something that happened and the reasons why it happened.
What is cause and effect?
To prove your answer
What is justify?
Helps the reader to understand what is happening in the illustration or photograph
What is a caption?
A word opposite in meaning to another word
What is an antonym?
A nonfiction text that contains facts and information
What is informational?
Definitions of bold words from the text; found in the back of the book
What is a glossary?
Something that goes wrong or needs to be fixed
What is problem or conflict?
This type of text structure includes a comparison of how two or more people or things are alike and different.
What is compare and contrast?
The ordering of events or steps from first to last
What is sequence?
Breaks text into small sections and helps the reader to understand what the section of text will be about
What is a heading?
Words that sound the same but are spelled differently, like ate and eight
What are homophones?
A true story written about another person’s life
What is a biography?
Use this reference resource to find more information about a specific topic; topics are in alphabetical order
What is an encyclopedia?
How the problem or conflict is solved
What is solution or resolution?
This type of text structure includes adjectives or gives a lot of detail about a person, place, situation, or topic.
What is description? What is describe?
a result, outcome, or final inference based on evidence
What is conclusion?
A simple image or picture using lines to explain where something is or how something works
What is a diagram?
A meaningful word part that is attached to the beginning of a root or base word (example: re-)
What is a prefix?
A collection of words that express an emotion or idea, sometimes with a specific meaning, sound or rhythm
What is poetry?
The first and last word on the dictionary page
What are guide words?
The most important problem or the cause of all of the other problems
What is the main problem? Or what is the main conflict?
What a person believes or thinks about something
What is an opinion?
To tell the most important events in your own words; include characters, setting, conflict, and resolution
What is summarize?
An alphabetical list of ideas that are in the book and the page number each idea is found on; this list is found in the back of the book
What is an index?
A unit of meaning that cannot stand alone as a whole word; a prefix and/or suffix can be attached to build a new word
What is a root word?
A fictional story that has been passed down from generation to generation by word of mouth; types include fables, myths and fairy tales
What is a folk tale?
Use this reference resource to find more information about a topic on the internet
What is a web page?
An adjective used to describe a character’s personality
What are traits?
This type of text structure includes dates in the order in which they happened.
What is chronological?
The part of the text used to support your answer
What is evidence?
Organizes two or more sets of data side-by-side in columns and rows
What is a table or chart?
A part of a word that contains one vowel sound
What is a syllable?