Vocabulary
What is the process of using information from a text and your own knowledge to make a guess about something not directly stated?
Answer: What is inference?
What tells the chapter names and page numbers in a book?
Answer: What is the table of contents?
What is a type of figurative language that compares two unlike things using "like" or "as"?
Answer: What is a simile?
What is the sequence of events that make up a story?
Answer: What is the plot?
What is what the author wants you to learn most about the topic called?
Answer: What is the main idea?
What is the term for the people or animals within a story?
Answer: What is character?
What do we call a picture drawn to show detail in a text?
Answer: What is an illustration?
What do we call a phrase that means something different than its literal meaning, like "It's raining cats and dogs"?
Answer: What is an idiom?
What do we call the main problem in the story?
Answer: What is conflict?
What do we call specific pieces of information that tell more about the main idea?
Answer: What are supporting details?
What is the short version of a text that conveys the main points called?
Answer: What is a summary?
Which text feature helps the reader better understand what a picture is about?
Answer: What is a caption?
What is the term for a type of figurative language that compares two unlike things without using "like" or "as"?
Answer: What is a metaphor?
What is the solution to the story's conflict called?
Answer: What is resolution?
What is the term for the way an author organizes information in a text?
Answer: What is text structure?
What do we call a word that has the opposite meaning of another word?
Answer: What is an antonym?
What is used to show the order in which events happened?
Answer: What is a timeline?
What is a word that has the same or similar meaning to another word?
Answer: What is a synonym?
What is an adjective that describes a character in literature?
Answer: What is a trait?
What do we call the way an author describes or explains details about a topic?
Answer: What is description?
What is the term for a piece of text or inference that proves something is true?
Answer: What is evidence?
What do we call a labeled picture that explains something?
Answer: What is a diagram?
What do we call a description of how two or more things are alike?
Answer: What is a comparison?
What is the message or lesson that the author wants you to take away from the story?
Answer: What is the theme?
What is it called when the author identifies a problem and provides possible solutions?
Answer: What is problem and solution?