Vocabulary
Reading Strategies
Comprehension
Literary Techniques
Literary Elements
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The type of words that are made when two or more words are combined.
What are compound words?
100
This type of story would tell me about a person's life.
What is a biography or autobiograpy?
100
This is a short way of stating the main idea and most important details in an article or story.
What is a summary?
100
This genre focuses on something in the real word and contains mostly facts.
What is nonfiction?
100
The time and place in which a story happens.
What is the setting?
200
A homonym that means shirt; uppermost; best; and a spinning toy.
What is top?
200
A persuasive letter would have this purpose.
What type of writing would change the way you think about something or try to get you to do something?
200
When you combine what's in the text with what you already know, you make this.
What is an inference?
200
This type of statment is a belief and cannot be proven to be true. You might agree with them, or you might not.
What is an opinion?
200
A cultural story that may or may not be based on real people or events; told as if it really happened.
What is a legend?
300
The prefix meaning three.
What is tri?
300
This would be the author's purpose in writing a funny story about going to a parade.
What is to entertain?
300
When you ask yourself who or what a story is mostly about, you're looking for this.
What is the main idea?
300
This is what we call the name of a book or article. It tells us what the book or article is about.
What is the title?
300
"Her eyes were like sunshine" is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is a simile?
400
The meaning of the root word "tele" as in telephone, television, or telescope.
What is far?
400
This is one purpose for an author's writing.
What is to entertain? What is to persuade? What is to inform?
400
These support the main idea of a story or text.
What are supporting details?
400
This word might indicate the order of events or sequence of a story.
What is first? What is next? What is last?
400
This genre often used rhyme, rhythm, onomatopoeia and alliteration.
What is a poetry?
500
An antonym for the word boring.
What is fun?
500
The definition of prediction.
What is a guess about what will happen?
500
You can make this inference about a character who helps an elderly woman cross the street.
What is that the character is helpful?
500
These pictures can help you explain the text or show complex information.
What are illustrations?
500
"Why would she want to get her stomach in knots over a concert?" is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is an idiom?
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