Literary Texts
Informational Texts
Vocabulary
Figuartive Language & Poetry
Writing
100
The location and time in which a story takes place.
What is the setting?
100
A list of words and definitions.
What is the glossary?
100
A word that means almost the same thing.
What is a synonym?
100
"The tiny white flowers dotted the morning mountainside like patches of snow" is an example of this.
What is a simile?
100
A piece of writing that tells a story. It has characters, settings, and a plot.
What is a narrative?
200
This is when a character is talking.
What is dialogue?
200
A picture that includes labels of certain parts.
What is a diagram?
200
A word that means the opposite.
What is an antonym?
200
"The stars were candles guiding the weary travelers" is an example of this.
What is a metaphor?
200
This type of writing convinces the reader to do something or to agree with something.
What is persuasive writing?
300
This is the list of people in a play.
What is the cast of characters?
300
A passage that is explained in order of when the events happened uses this text structure.
What is chronological order?
300

Context Clues 

Help the reader to understand the meaning of unfamiliar words. 

300
"This cat weights a ton" is an example of this.
What is a hyperbole?
300
This type of writing provides facts and explains something.
What is informational or nonfiction writing?
400
This is the part of the story when the suspense peaks and the problem is solved.
What is the turning point?
400

List the elements of an informational text.

Facts

Definitions

Information on a topic

Non-Fiction

400
When this is added to the beginning of a root word, it makes a new word and chenges the meaning of the word.
What is a prefix?
400
"Storm clouds threatened to flood the wheat fields in the Midwestern region" is an example of this.
What is personification?
400

When do we use the R.A.C.E strategy?

When answering constructed response questions. 

500
This is the deeper meaning or the insight the story teaches about life.
What is theme?
500
The paragraph that usually reemphasizes and summarizes the main idea in an informational passage.
What is the last paragraph or conclusion
500
Words that sound the same but have different spellings and different meanings.
What are homophones?
500

Why do authors use figurative language? What genre of stories would figurative language occur more in? 

To make the writing more interesting and exciting. 

Fiction text. 

500

"Because she broke her arm" is an example of this.

What is a fragment or a dependent clause?

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