Figurative Language
Comprehension Strategies
Literature
Informational texts
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100
This is an exaggeration for effect such as "I'm so Hungry I can eat a horse!"

What is Hyberbole

100

These are the three times we ask questions about our reading.

What is Before, During, and After?

100

This is when and where a story takes place.

What is the setting?

100

This is what a paragraph or section of a text is all about.

What is main idea or central idea

100

These are words that are spelled different but sound the same. "There, They're, Their"

Homophones

200

This is a comparison of two things using like or as. "He was a sly as a fox."

What is a simile

200

This skill has us using sensory language to imagine being in the story. "Smell, Sight, Taste, Sound"

What is creating Mental Images?

200

This is what a character says.

What is dialogue?

200

This where we can find what a passage will be mostly about

What is the beginning or introduction

200

These words describe the relation of items or actions in a sentence. "The cat jumped under the bed after running along the dresser."

What are prepositions

300

This is when human traits are given to non human objects or animals. "The trees whispered in the wind"

What is Personification

300

This strategy has us thinking about what the author shares, and doesn't share, before using our own knowledge to tie it all together.

What is drawing Inferences?

300

This is the perspective when a story is written from the character's point of view.

What is First Person?

300

When I see a small number next to an unknown word in my text where I can look here for the definition of the word.

What is the bottom of the page?

300

A complex sentence has multiple of these.

What are clauses
400

This is a comparison WITHOUT using like or as. "The waves were a never ending mountain range."

What is a Metaphor?

400

These are the three types of connections we make to a text.

What are across texts, prior knowledge, and personal experience?

400

This is when a story is written from an outside perspective.

What is the third person

400

You should always use these items in a text that can provide additional information or context to a passage.

What is a graphic feature (graph, picture, model, etc)

400
This punctuation mark separates items in a list or clauses in a complex sentence.

What is a comma

500

This is when you use two contradicting statements for dramatic effect. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."

What is a Paradox?
500

This is the difference between a summary and a synthesis.

What is knowledge from outside the text?

500

This is how a story makes us feel (emotions)

What is tone

500
These support a main idea of an informational passage.

What are supporting details?

500

This tense is used to describe an action that has occurred in the past before another action was completed.

What is the past perfect verb tense.

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