Reading Literature (RL.7.1–7.7)
This type of evidence is required to support an answer about a story or poem.
Answer: What is textual evidence?
This is the most important idea the author wants the reader to understand in an informational text.
Answer: What is the central idea?
This is the part of speech that names a person, place, thing, or idea.
Answer: What is a noun?
This is what you use to figure out the meaning of an unfamiliar word in context.
Answer: What are context clues?
This process involves using prefixes, roots, and suffixes to determine meaning.
Answer: What is morphological analysis?
This is the message, life lesson, or moral of a literary text.
Answer: What is the theme?
These details support or prove the central idea.
Answer: What are supporting details?
This type of sentence contains two independent clauses joined by a conjunction.
Answer: What is a compound sentence?
These types of words have the same or similar meanings.
Answer: What are synonyms?
This is the type of writing that explains or informs.
Answer: What is informative/explanatory writing?
This part of a story includes the struggle between opposing forces.
Answer: What is the conflict?
This describes how events or ideas in a text influence each other.
Answer: What is interaction (cause & effect / relationships)?
This is an error where two complete sentences are joined incorrectly.
Answer: What is a run-on sentence?
This is the emotional feeling a word creates.
Answer: What is connotation?
This paragraph includes a topic sentence, evidence, and explanation.
Answer: What is a body paragraph?
This term describes how a narrator’s position or viewpoint shapes the story.
Answer: What is point of view?
This element of structure may include headings, subheadings, graphs, or charts.
Answer: What are text features?
These types of phrases add extra information but do NOT contain a complete idea.
Answer: What are dependent clauses or phrases?
This type of relationship exists between words like “teacher” and “student.”
Answer: What is antonymy or opposite relationship?
This includes facts, statistics, or examples used to support ideas.
Answer: What is evidence?
“This element of a story is NOT directly stated, must be inferred, and reveals what the author wants readers to learn.”
Answer: What is the theme?
This term describes how an author reveals a character’s thoughts, feelings, or motives through actions and dialogue.
Answer: What is characterization?
This describes a word that connects words, phrases, or clauses (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so).
Answer: What is a coordinating conjunction?
This type of relationship exists between words like “teacher” and “student.”
Answer: What is antonymy or opposite relationship?
This final paragraph gives closure and restates the main points of the essay.
Answer: What is a conclusion?