A text that is true and contains facts that can be checked by other sources. It will often contain pictures, headings, and captions.
What is non-fiction/expository?
100
The root word that means "many."
What is multi?
100
The comprehension skill in which a person finds what the passage is mostly about.
What is main idea?
200
When someone within the story is telling it from their perspective.
What is first person?
200
The meaning of the suffix "able."
What is the ability to?
200
A text that is not true, but could have happened.
What is realistic fiction?
200
The root word that means "life."
What is bio?
200
The comprehension skill where a person puts all of the events from a selection in order from beginning to end.
What is sequencing?
300
When an author writes to try to get you to do something or think a certain way.
What is to persuade?
300
The meaning of the suffix "less."
What is without?
300
A text that is set in the past and was passed down by oral tradition. It often has exaggerated characters or events.
What is a folktale/legend?
300
The root word that means "to write?"
What is scrib/graph?
300
The comprehension skill where a person tells the story in his or her own words.
What is summarizing?
400
When someone (a narrator) tells the story and shows all perspectives.
What is third person?
400
The meaning of the prefix "pre."
What is before?
400
A text that uses rhythm and rhyme to convey ideas.
What is poetry?
400
The root word that means "far off."
What is tele?
400
The comprehension skill where a person identifies what happened in the selection and why.
What is cause and effect?
500
When an author writes to tell you how to do something. Often times, he or she will give step by step instructions.
What is to explain?
500
The meaning of the suffix "ness."
What is the state of?
500
A text that was written about the life a person, by someone else.
What is a biography?
500
The root word that means "to carry."
What is port?
500
The comprehension skill where a person combines information from the selection with their own knowledge and experience to understand something about the selection that the author did not state.