READING COMPREHENSION
This is the main idea or lesson a story teaches.
What is a theme?
A comparison between two things using "like" or "as" is called this.
What is a simile?
This type of writing tells a story with a beginning, middle, and end.
What is a narrative?
This punctuation mark is used before a coordinating conjunction in a compound sentence.
What is a comma?
A heading, picture, or bold text that helps you understand what you're reading is called this.
What is a text feature?
When a character faces a problem in a story, this is called the...
What is a conflict?
The words "mean" and "kind" are examples of these types of words.
What are multiple-meaning words?
Words like "first," "next," "then," and "finally" help organize your writing and are called these.
What are transitional words?
These marks are used to show the exact words someone said.
What are quotation marks?
This text structure shows the order in which events happen.
What is sequence?
This is the place and time where a story happens.
What is the setting?
When you use the surrounding words to figure out what an unfamiliar word means, you are using these.
What are context clues?
When you reread your work and make changes to make it better, you are doing this.
What is revising?
She is running" uses this type of verb tense.
What is progressive verb tense?
This text structure explains what something is like.
What is description?
If a story is told from "I" and "me," it is written in this point of view.
What is first-person point of view?
"Raining cats and dogs" is an example of this.
What is an idiom?
This type of writing gives facts and information about a topic.
What is informative/explanatory writing?
Words like "can," "may," and "must" are examples of these.
What are auxiliary verbs?
This text structure shows a problem and how it is solved.
What is problem/solution?
You use these to support your answer when explaining what a text says.
What are details and examples?
The root word "bio" means "life," so "biography" means this.
What is the story of someone's life?
You should do this before you start writing to organize your ideas.
What is planning?
A sentence that is incomplete and doesn't express a complete thought is called this.
What is a fragment?
You use these to compare and contrast two different accounts of the same event.
What are primary and secondary sources?