Figurative Language
Main Idea
Text Features
Text Structure
Inference
100

The sky was angry with dark storm clouds in the distance.

What is Personification

100

India currently has several hundred dialect.  Many people in India speak two or more languages.

India has many different languages

100

An Order of events listed in Chronological order or time order.

Timeline

100

To explain the life cycle of a flying squirrel.

What is Order and Sequence

100

I can say "moo" and give you milk too!  Who am I?

What is a cow?

200

Running a marathon was her Mr. Everest

What is a metaphor

200

Living in the US there are many people from Mexico, Puerto Rico, Asia, China, Africa, Jamaica and Europe.  I was born in the US.

What is US is a melting pot of different countries.

200

A drawing that shows or explains something.  There are titles, labels, captions and numbered parts.

What is a diagram

200

To look at a polar bear's physical features, its food preferences, and its habitat

What is Description

200

With socks I'm really neat.  Two of me go on our feet!  What am I?

What are shoes

300

"Clang! Clang!"

What is an Onomatopoeia

300

India's city is a transportation hub for India's railroad and water travel.  It also has a film industry called Bollywood.  There are more than 100 hospitals.

India is a great place to live with lots of opportunities.

300

Explains a picture or illustration

What is a caption

300

To explain how lifting weights can help strengthen bones

What is cause and effect

300

You can plant me. . .You can pick me... You can pop me.... I grow on a stalk. . . or make me into bread...

What is corn

400

I waited in line at the ticket counter for a million years.

What is a Hyperbole

400

Pizza is served in many schools.  It started in the late 1800s from Italy.  It was unpopular for several decades until the end of WWII.  Soldiers enjoyed pizza in Italy and ate it when returning to the US on a regular basis.

The main idea is pizza was unpopular until after WWII.

400

Divides the text into sections and tells the main idea of each section.

What is a subheading.

400

To show how an unclean kitchen area can cause illness and how a chef may take steps to prevent this...

What is Problem Solution

400

I am dangerous.....I might blow my top.....I am part of the earth....I can be hot....I can be explosive...I am found in Hawaii

What is a volcano

500

If you want me to help you you're barking up the wrong tree.

What is an Idiom

500

YouTube is one of the most popular websites and created in 2005.  Three men wanted a different website to show videos.  

Main idea is YouTube was created in 2005.

500

List of key terms in alphabetical order with definition.

What is a Glossary

500

I needed to find a house or an apartment in Melbourne.  The house was a down payment of $10,000.  The apartment was a down payment of $2400.  

What is Compare and Contrast

500

What are 3 things good readers do to make inferences?

Use word/text clues, picture clues, and use prior knowledge

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