Text Structure
Genre
Story Elements
Reading Strategies
ELA Words
100
A text structure that explains why things happen, what happened, and what made it happen.
What is cause and effect?
100
A form of nonfiction in which a writer tells the life of another person.
What is a biography?
100
The main subject in a text, can introduce a universal lesson or moral.
What is theme of a story?
100
Clues given in a passage as to the meaning of the word.
What are context clues?
100
An opinion that you form after thinking about many things. It also means an ending or result.
What is conclude or conclusion?
200
How two things are alike and how they are different.
What is compare and contrast?
200
A story that takes place in the past, but can have characters who really existed.
What is historical fiction?
200
A person in a story, play, or movie.
Who is the character?
200
To read or look over quickly.
What is scan/skim?
200
The knowledge and values shared by a society.
What is culture?
300
A text structure which identifies when something is wrong, and provides ways of fixing what is wrong.
What is problem and solution?
300
A text that can include metaphors, similes, personification and rhyme.
What is a poem?
300
The time, place, time period or culture; in a story, play or poem.
What is setting?
300
An examination of how two or more things are similar.
What is comparison?
300
To decide something finally and without question.
What is to determine?
400
A topic, idea, person, or thing is described by listing its features, characteristics, or examples.
What is description or statements followed by details?
400
A text that contains characters and situations that could happen in real life.
What is realistic fiction?
400
A written piece often found in a newspaper or magazine.
What is an article?
400
Going back to the text and finding information to support an answer.
What is looking for text evidence?
400
A talk between two or more people or between characters in a play, film, novel or literary text.
What is dialogue?
500
Describes items or events in order, or tells the steps to follow to do something or make something.
What is sequence of events?
500
A text type that gives directions, or explains a procedure to complete a specific task.
What is a technical text?
500
A story containing unreal and imaginary features like talking animals or fairies.
What is fantasy?
500
The most important idea expressed in a piece of writing.
What is the main idea or the central idea?
500
A cultural story passed down from generations.
What is a folktale?
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