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Where or when a story takes place.
What is setting?
The people or animals in a story.
A word that has the same meaing as another word.
What is synonym?
Two words put together that make a new word.
What is compound word?
The reason the author writes something.
What is author's purpose?
The problem in a story.
What is conflict?
What the text is mostly about.
What is central message?
The central point or message of a text.
Main Idea
The person telling the story.
What is narrator?
A piece of writing written in lines, stanzas, and usually rhymes.
What is a poem?
How the problem is solved.
Ideas that help support the main idea.
What is supporting detail?
A row of words in a poem.
What is line?
Text that is NOT real (includes characters).
What is fiction?
One of the main characters is telling the story using "me" or "I'"
What is first person point of view?
Putting things in the correct order.
What is sequencing?
A group of lines in a poem.
What is stanza?
Words that are opposite in meaning.
What is anyonym?
A story about a real person's life written by an author.
What is biography?
A narrator is telling the story using "he/she" "him/her."
What is third person point of view?
The main message, lesson, or moral of the text.
What is theme?
When you use background knowledge to draw conclusions about what you are reading.
What is infer?
A story about a real person's life written by that person.
What is autobiography?
Text that is about a real person, place, thing, or event.
What is nonfiction?
The author is trying to get you to believe or do something.
What is persuade?