Nonfiction
Fiction
Expository Elements
Strategies and Organization
Vocabulary
100
Text that helps explain what you are looking at.
What is a caption?
100
A short work of fiction that has a few characters moving through a plot.
What is a short story
100
An image that is in the text.
What is a photograph?
100
This is an educated guess, a conclusion that makes sense because it is supported by evidence.
What is an inference?
100
Explains or informs.
What is expository?
200
What happens in both nonfiction and fiction narratives as a result of the cause.
What is an effect?
200
A story with no known author, and is passed on from on generation to another by word of mouth.
What is a folk tale?
200
Words within the text that best describes the content.
What are key words?
200
This is an event that makes something happen.
What is an effect?
200
Provides the topic plus the writer's opinion
What is a thesis?
300
This type of writing gives facts, explains ideas, directions, or terms.
What is expository text?
300
This is a fictional work that is longer than 20 pages but shorter than 100 pages.
What is a novella?
300
Tools that help readers preview and understand text.
What are text features?
300
This is the way a person looks at a subject.
What is a perspective or view?
300
Actual wording that supports and answer.
What is text evidence?
400
Someone else's perspective.
What is an opinion?
400
This is the vantage point from which a story is told.
What is point of view?
400
Where the main idea is stated.
What is the topic sentence?
400
A statement that can be proven or disproven.
What is a fact?
400
This type of writing explains or informs in an organized format.
What is an essay?
500
A good way to understand nonfictional essay is to place event in a sequential order, also known as this.
What is chronological order?
500
This is a fiction story based on an actual historical event.
What is historical fiction.
500
Identifies the subject or main idea of the text.
What is the title?
500
The most important point or focus of the paragraph or passage.
What is the Main Idea?
500
This brief type of nonfiction writing answers a question with an explanation and textual support.
What is an short answer?
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