The location and time in which a story takes place.
What is the setting?
100
A list of words and definitions.
What is the glossary?
100
A word that means almost the same thing.
What is a synonym?
100
"The tiny white flowers dotted the morning mountainside like patches of snow" is an example of this.
What is a simile?
100
A piece of writing that tells a story. It has characters, settings, and a plot.
What is a narrative?
200
This is when a character is talking.
What is dialogue?
200
A picture that includes labels of certain parts.
What is a diagram?
200
A word that means the opposite.
What is an antonym?
200
"The stars were candles guiding the weary travelers" is an example of this.
What is a metaphor?
200
This type of writing convinces the reader to do something or to agree with something.
What is persuasive writing?
300
This is the broad idea, the moral, or the message of the story.
What is theme?
300
A passage that is explained in order of when the events happened uses this text structure.
What is chronological order?
300
This reference lists synonyms for words.
For example you want to find other words that mean "happy."
happy: excited, gleeful, joyous
What is a thesaurus?
300
It is poetry that does not have rhyme.
What is prose?
300
This type of writing provides facts and explains something.
What is informational or nonfiction writing?
400
This is a genre that has magic, royalty, and "they lived happily ever after."
What is a fairytale?
400
This text structure provides information about a topic.
Signal words include:
• a number of • appears to be • as in • characteristics • for example • for instance • in addition • in back of • including • is like • looks like • such as • to illustrate
What is description?
400
When this is added to the ending of a root word, it makes a new word and changes the meaning of the word.
run:
run + ning
run+ s
What is a suffix?
400
It is someone's thinking or perspective.
What is point of view?
400
"After we went outside, we ate lunch" is an example of this type of sentence. It's not simple, it's ____.
What is a complex sentence?
500
This is the deeper meaning or the insight the story teaches about life.
What is theme?
500
The paragraph that usually reemphasizes and summarizes the main idea in an informational passage.
What is the last paragraph or conclusion
500
Words and phrases are words/phrases that
are spelled the same and sound the same, yet have different
meanings
Examples: run, change, rock
What are multiple-meaning words?
500
This type of literacy contains a cast of characters, settings, dialogue, stage directions, and a narrator. It's not poetry...
What is drama?
500
"Because she broke her arm" is an example of this.
It's not a complete sentence, it's broken.