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This word means what the text is mostly about.
Main idea
What is the author's perspective?
What is description?
What is personification
When something that is not alive is given human qualities
What is text structure?
How a text is organized or written
Compare and contrast
Sequence
Problem and solution
Cause and effect
Description
This is the lesson or message of a story
Theme
What is the author's purpose?
Why the author wrote a text. Persuade, entertain, inform
What is dialogue?
The words a character say in a play
What is a similie
What is a metaphor
Similie when 2 things are compared using like or as
Metaphor when 2 things are compared not using like or as. Something is or was something else
How do you annotate a nonfiction text?
Main idea of each subheading
Text structure
Author's purpose
Write what the picture or diagram is showing you
How do you make an inference?
You use clues from the text and what you already know to make a guess.
What does cause and effect mean?
Effect what happens as a result (Happens after)
What are stage directions
Directions on how to act
How are paragraphs connected? What should you do to find how they are connected?
Compare and contrast
Description
Cause and effect
problem and solutionSequence
Main idea
read both paragraphsHow do you annoate a fiction text?
Somebody
Character trait
Feeling
Wanted
But
So
Then
Why a character does something.
What is compare and contrast
How things are alike and different
What is a speaker in a poem?
What is onomatopoeia
A word that sounds like the same word.
How do you annotate a poem
Speaker
Topic
What the speaker is saying about the topic in each stanza
The mood or feeling of a poem
What does the word change mean?
Comparing how a character is different from the beginning to the end of the story.
What is sequence?
The order of events
What is mood
How a poem makes you feel
What is the author's claim
What the author believes and is trying to convince you of
How do you answer a short response question and multiple choice questions?
Write the question in your own words.
Go back into the text
find your evidence
Restate Cross out question words
Answer
Cite 3 pieces of evidence
Explain how your evidence supports your answer