Informational Texts
Literary Texts
Reading Concepts
Text Structures
More Concepts
100
What a passage is about or the subject of a passage
Topic
100
Drama
A play
100
Using your own words to tell a short but complete version of a text
Summarize
100
The words and phrases that help us to know the structure of a text
Signal words
100
If I'm identifying a problem a character must face, what am I identifying?
A challenge
200
An important idea about a topic
Main idea
200
Where and when a story takes place
Setting
200
Using what you already know with information from the text to come up with your own ideas about what the author is saying
Inference
200
A text that is identifying the similarities and differences between two or more things
Compare and contrast text structure
200
The general feeling of a text (could be happy, sad, scary, etc.)
Tone
300
Texts that teach about the natural world
Scientific texts
300
Things that happen in a story
Events
300
What happened and why
Cause and effect
300
A text structure that identifies a problem and a solution or potential solution
Problem and solution text structure
300
The best form of evidence from a text
Quotes
400
Texts that teach you about how to make or do something
Technical text
400
A lesson about life that an author wants you to learn
Theme
400
What the author thinks and feels about a topic
Point of view
400
A text structure that explains what happened and why it happened
Cause and effect text structure
400
An explanation for why an idea might be true
Reason
500
Texts that teach us about people, places, events, and ideas
Historical text
500
Words and phrases that help us to imagine familiar things in new and unfamiliar ways
Figurative language
500
Identifying similarities and differences
Comparing and contrasting
500
A text that tells events and the order that they happened in
Chronological or sequence text structure
500
What are the three criteria for a short answer?
1. Restate the question

2. Answer the question

3. Include text evidence

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