Reading Terms
Word Work!
Great Grammar
Story Elements
Point of View
100
The reason the author wrote the passage.
What is author's purpose?
100
Words that mean the same.
What are synonyms?
100
A word that refers to more than one person, place or thing.
What is a plural noun?
100
The people or animals in a story. Who the story is about.
Who are characters?
100
The person telling the story.
What is a narrator?
200
Text that tells why things happen and what happens as a result. Some clue words are because or so.
What are cause and effect?
200
Two words that are shortened by putting them together and using an apostrophe where the left out letter should be.
What is a contraction?
200
Words that show ownership.
What is possessive?
200
Where the story takes place. This can include: time, place, and weather.
What is a setting?
200
The author is writing about himself/herself.
What is first person point of view?
300
A word that describes the type of story that it is.
What is a Genre?
300
A big word that is made up of two smaller words.
What is a compound word?
300
A person, place or thing.
What is a noun?
300
The order in which the events of a story happen.
What is a sequence?
300
The author is writing to someone else.
What is second person point of view?
400
A shortened version of the main ideas of a story.
What is a summary?
400
A unit of spoken language that contains a vowel sound: suffixes and prefixes are often called common syllables.
What are syllables?
400
A piece of punctuation that separates the two parts of a contraction.
What is an apostrophe?
400
Something that goes wrong in a story?
What is a problem?
400
The narrator of the story knows the thoughts and feelings of only one person.
What is third person limited point of view?
500
The design and size of the typing in a text including bold and italic.
What are font styles?
500
Words that have the same sound or the same spelling. Ex. pear/pair, there/their/they're, dear/deer.
What are homonyms?
500
A group of words that is not a complete sentence.
What is a fragment?
500
The answer to the problem in a story. How a problem is solved.
What is a solution?
500
The narrator of the story knows the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.
What is third person omniscient point of view?
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