Do You Know Your Genres?
A passage or text that entertains the reader
What is FICTION?
the author presents information using dates to show sequence of events?
What is chronological order?
The people or animals in a story that leads the story.
What are characters?
A WORD that means to make an idea clear to another person by giving all the important facts in an organized way
What is explain?
What is elaborate?
A strategy used to take out the wrong answer choice.
What is elimination?
An information text where the author present facts and details or writes to persuade.
What is nonfiction?
The author presents information that focuses on the problem or issue and presents a way to solve it.
What is problem and solution?
The rising action, turning point and falling action in a story.
What is the plot?
A WORD that shows how one part helps explain more or help you better another part or understand the whole passage
What is how does this contribute to the text?
This is a strategy used to determine the meaning of new words, vocabulary or phrases.
What is using CONTEXT CLUES?
A text that is written in lines and stanzas.
What is a POEM?
The author presents information about ideas that may have similarities and differences.
What is comapre and contrast?
The story element where the story begins to change.
What is the turning point?
A WORD that means to figure something out or make a decision using ALL of the evidence/ clues in the text to think about what really happened.
What is draw a conclusion?
A strategy that helps you break the text into parts AND taking notes on the side so that you locate and look back at the passage
What is CHUNKING and ANNOTATING?
A text that has many characters saying their own lines where the action and the story is told through what they say.
What is a PLAY?
The author presents information by explaining reasons and results of what happened?
What is cause and effect?
When the characters have a reason to act a certain way or want something.
What is character motivation?
A quote from the text that is used to support your claim.
What is text evidence?
After reading a text, thinking about what the whole text is mostly about.
What is SUMMARIZING?
What is the CENTRAL IDEA?
A passage where someone's life (a real person) is being told almost like a story.
What is NARRATIVE NONFICTION or BIOGRAPHY?
The way authors present information in an article that allows the reader to determine the central idea.
What is text structure?
When you as the reader use all the details you learned and what you already know to sum up what is really happening in the story.
What is making an inference?
A WORD that describes how a reader connects different main ideas and text structure together to conclude what the whole text is about
What is the central idea?
When reading an informational text, you use these ideas to help you find the central idea:
- compare and contrast
- cause and effect
- chronological order/ sequence of events
- problem-solution
What is TEXT STRCTURE?