Story Elements
Author's Purpose
Comprehension Strategies
Nonfiction Features
Spelling/Grammar
100
The person who writes a text
What is the author?
100
To convince someone of something.
What is to persuade?
100
To use clues from text and background knowledge to figure out what the author means.
What is Inferring?
100
This is found at the beginning of a text-lists topics or chapters by page number.
What is the Table of Contents?
100
A person, place, or thing.
What is a noun?
200
This is what goes wrong in a fiction story.
What is the problem?
200
Reading for enjoyment instead of to learn something.
What is to entertain?
200
To create pictures in your mind as you read to help you understand the text.
What is visualizing?
200
Found in the end of a nonficiton text-topics in ABC order.
What is an Index?
200
A word that is made of two words. Example snow + flake = snowflake
What is a Compound Word?
300
WHEN and WHERE a story takes place.
What is the setting?
300
To teach
What is to inform?
300
To put pieces of information together like a puzzle to help you understand what you are reading and to gain new understanding.
What is synthesizing?
300
Text located by a photograph-describes the picture.
What is a Caption?
300
An ending on a word. Example (endING)
What is a Suffix?
400
The most important character in a story.
What is the main character?
400
A person's view or belief (This tastes so good!)
What is an opinion?
400
These are phrases I am thinking while reading that help with this strategy. This information is important because.. I want to remember.. I noticed..
What is determine importance?
400
Words at the top of dictionary pages.
What are Guide Words?
400
An action word. Example jump
What is a verb?
500
The events in a story-beginning, middle, and end.
What is the plot?
500
Who is telling the story-first person/3rd person.
What is Point of View?
500
Good readers do this to help them understand and remember what they read.
What is asking questions?
500
A mini dictionary in a nonfiction text.
What is a Glossary?
500
A describing word. Examples blue or brown, hot or cold
What is an adjective?
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