This is a signal word used to indicate difference.
What is the word "contrast"?
100
These are two literary devices used to make a comparison.
What are metaphor and simile?
100
This reading benchmark explains how the visual aids help reader understand the passage.
What is text features?
100
Name the three different purposes an author might write a text.
What is to persuade, inform, and entertain?
100
This happens when a person telling a story remembers something from the past, then returns to the present and continues telling what is happening now.
What is a flashback?
200
Venn Diagram
What type of graphic organizer is used to convey similarities and difference?
200
A figure of speech in which the author uses exaggeration to suggest strong emotion.
What is hyperbole?
200
A type of text feature that further divides and organizes the passage.
What is a subheading?
200
These are three synonyms for the word "inform".
What is to tell, explain, and show?
200
This word is used to hint or give clues in a narrative to suggest something that will happen in the future.
What is foreshadowing?
300
This word is used to find similar relationships between two pieces of text or within a passage.
What is the word "comparison"?
300
This key word is determined using a method in which the reader looks at the title, topic sentences, and subheadings.
What is finding the main idea?
300
What are two text features that draws attention to key words?
What is bold text and italics?
300
This is the way an author might show his/her bias in a written text.
What is the author's opinion?
300
The tall-tale "Pecos Bill" is full of examples of this type of figurative language including "it was so dry his horses and cows were starting to dry up and blow away."
What is a hyperbole?
400
The act of finding similarities between or within texts
What is comparing
400
The part of the story where the characters, setting and conflict is introduced.
What is exposition?
400
This is a method in which the reader analyzes and evaluates information from multiple sources to draw conclusions.
What is synthesizing information?
400
"This" happens because of "That".
What is cause and effect?
400
These are three key details established during the exposition, or first stage of the plot.
What are characters, setting, and tone?
500
This word indicates types of writing techniques to give reader a better understanding of a passage. For example compare and contrast, cause and effect, and chronological order.
What are types of organizational patterns?
500
The important lesson or message the author wants to convey about the story.
What is the definition of theme?
500
A sentence that explains a photo.
What is a caption?
500
This word is used to describe how an author organizes information. Examples include: compare/contrast, cause/effects, chronological order, argument/support, definition/explanation, etc.
What is texts structures?
500
The dictionary definition, or exact meaning of a word?