Language/Vocabulary
Writing/Research
Media/Logic
Informational Text
Literature
100
A word that names a person, place, or thing.
What is a noun?
100
The people that a reading passage is written for.
What is the audience?
100
A photograph which can be used to help someone understand a reading passage.
What is a still picture?
100
The words that tell what a picture is about.
What is a caption?
100
A sentence which uses "like" or "as" to compare two things.
What is a simile?
200
A word that shows action or being.
What is a verb?
200
When an author writes because he/she is trying to convince someone to do something.
What is to persuade?
200
Computers or internet.
What is an example of a medium that was not available to previous generation?
200
A sentence that helps to prove the main idea.
What is a supporting detail?
200
A genre of literature that often has animals as characters and teaches a moral or lesson.
What is a fable?
300
A word that takes the place of a noun.
What is a pronoun?
300
This is used to do research and contains articles about people, places, and things.
What is an encyclopedia?
300
The overall point or summary of a paragraph or reading passage.
What is the main idea?
300
A title written above a section of a reading passage.
What is a heading?
300
What the story is about or what the characters are doing.
What is the plot of a story?
400
A word that describes a noun.
What is an adjective?
400
A word that helps sentences flow better and help show sequence. (examples: first, next, finally)
What is a time order or transitional word?
400
A 3-dimensional scene placed in a shoebox or case to be a model of nature, etc.
What is a diorama?
400
A list of headings and subheadings used to organize information.
What is an outline?
400
When two or more words in a reading passage begin with the same letters or sounds.
What is alliteration?
500
A word that describes a verb.
What is an adverb?
500
A book that contains synonyms of words.
What is a thesaurus?
500
A recording made for people to listen to information.
What is an audio recording?
500
A small dictionary often found in the back of a textbook or reference book.
What is a glossary?
500
A word that comes from a sound (examples: pop, boom, snap)
What is onomatopoeia?
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