Poetry
reading skills
vocabulary
Reading strategies
Literary Elements
100
stanzas
What is group of lines that act like paragraphs in a poem?
100
prior knowledge
What is what you already know, to help you understand the text
100
trans
What is the prefix to carry?
100
prediction
What is and educated guess about what will happen next in a story?
100
Folktale
What is a traditional story handed down orally through the generations?
200
rhythm
What is a structured pattern of sounds that creates a regular beat?
200
Authors purpose (persuade)
What is when an author tries to convince the reader to think or doe something.
200
circ
What is the root that means to go around?
200
context clues
What are the clues around a word that help you figure out what it means?
200
Characters
What are the people or animals in a story?
300
Rhyme
What is when words in a poem end in the same sound?
300
Main idea
What is the reading skill we talk about when we ask what the selection is mostly about?
300
equi
What is the root that means the same?
300
multiple meaning words
What are words that have the same spelling but may be pronounced differently?
300
Setting
What is where and when a story takes place?
400
Haiku
What is a traditional Japanese poetry that has 3 lines and equals 17 syllables?
400
bene
What is the root that means good or well?
400
analogies
What is a comparison of two sets of ideas? Both sets of ideas will have the same relationship?
500
Free verse
What is a form of poetry that does not have a set rhyme or rhythm?
500
cause and effect
What is a reading skill that often occurs in nonfiction text that tells why something happens because of something else?
500
homonyms
What are words that sound the same as another word but is spelled differntl and has a different meaning?
500
Plot
What is what explains why things happen and how each event in a story affects the next event? Beginning, middle, end.
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