Genres
Text that is factual and true.
What is nonfiction text?
What is the most important part of a story?
The author’s purpose is to tell you how two things are the same and how they are different by comparing them.
What is compare and contrast?
Uses the words “like” or “as” to compare one object or idea with another to suggest they are alike.
Ex. Busy as a bee
What is a simile?
A theme is....
What is a life lesson, moral of the story, or underlying message?
Story that is made up, but it can actually happen and is true to life.
What is realistic fiction?
Details that support your main idea
What are supporting details?
The author will introduce a problem and tell us how the problem could be fixed. There may be one solution to fix the problem or several different solutions mentioned.
What is problem and solution?
A figure of speech in which human characteristics are given to an animal or an object.
Ex. My teddy bear gave me a hug.
What is personification?
The difference between theme and main idea is...
What is the theme is the moral or lesson of the story and main idea is what the story is about?
Narrative of a person's life, a true story about a real person.
What is a biography?
Jim's dog does not like to get wet. He avoids water at all cost. When Jim has to give his dog a bath, the dog tries to run away. The dog does not even like it when it rains. The main idea is...
What is Jim's dog does not like water?
Texts are written in an order or timeline format.
What is chronological?
The repetition of the same initial letter, sound, or group of sounds in a series of words.
Ex. She sells sea shells by the sea shore.
What is alliteration?
A theme cannot include two components. Name the two components.
What are characters and plot?
A story created from the imagination.
What is a fiction?
The Statue of Liberty is visited by thousands of people every year. The Statue of Liberty is a 151 foot statue of a woman holding a book and a torch. It is located on an island in New York Harbor. It was a gift of friendship from the people of France.It has become a universal symbol of freedom. The main idea is...
What is The Statue of Liberty is visited by thousands of people every year?
The author describes something that has happened which has had an effect on or caused something else to happen.
What is cause and effect?
An exaggeration that is so dramatic that no one would believe the statement is true.
Ex. He was so hungry that he said he could eat a horse.
What is a hyperbole?
Money Mark was born rich. He never had to work a day in his life and he got everything handed to him on a silver platter. When he was six, Money Mark wanted to go to a basketball game. His father paid the starting five of the Bulls and Celtics to play a private game of Nerf-ball in Money Mark's bedroom. When Money Mark turned thirteen, he wanted to start a band. His father hired the Rolling Stones to play with him every Saturday at the family's private concert hall, though his family was never there. By the time he was twenty-one, Money Mark was bored with life. He was surrounded by a bunch of possessions that he didn't appreciate and Money Mark could find nothing new or exciting in his life. Despite his vast wealth, Money Mark was never satisfied. Say the theme of the story.
What is money cannot buy you happiness? (Other themes can be correct with an explanation)
Text that is written in dialogue form, and are sometimes presented on stage.
What is a drama or a play?
It was backward day at school. The students had to do things backwards. Some of them wore their t-shirt backward. They took a test before they studied the lesson! Dessert was served first instead of last at lunch. They tried to walk home backward, but they kept bumping into each other and fell down. The main idea is...
What is students had a backwards day?
This type of text structure features a detailed description of something to give the reader a mental picture.
What is description?
A word that imitates the sound of the object or action it refers to.
Ex. BAM
There can only be one theme in a story. True or False.
What is false?