Fiction
Literature that is created from the imagination.
What is fiction?
Text structure that introduces a problem and ends with a solution.
What is problem/solution text structure?
Marks at the end of every sentence. Ex): period, question mark, exclamation mark.
What is punctuation?
Strategy to use for short constructed responses where you restate, answer, and provide text evidence for your response.
What is the RAP?
A play for theatre, radio, or television that tells a story.
What is drama?
Refers to who is telling the story, or who is narrating it.
What is point-of-view?
Parts in any nonfiction passage that give the reader more information about what they are reading. Ex): maps, pictures, diagrams, etc.
What are graphic features?
A word that shows ACTION, OCCURANCE, or STATE OF BEING.
What is a verb?
The reason the author writes a text.
What is the author's purpose?
Stories with fairies, magical creatures, princes, and princesses.
What is a fairy tale?
The stick figure, house, rain cloud, sun, and triangle.
What are the plot element icons?
This is what the text is mostly about. You should use key details from the text to support your response.
What is the central idea?
A person, place, or thing.
What is a noun?
When the author is trying to convince the reader to do, believe, or purchase something in an argumentative text.
What is the claim?
A text that is written about a person's life and their accomplishments.
What is a biography?
The overall message or lesson in the story.
What is the theme?
True or False: I should preview the graphic features/questions before reading a nonfiction text.
TRUE
A word tat describes an animal, person, thing, or thought.
What is an adjective?
The audience targeted in an argumentative text.
Who is the intended audience?
Writing that has a musical rhythm and expresses the author's emotion.
What is poetry?
The events and characters that move the story along.
What is plot?
These are combined key ideas from each section to tell what the whole text was mainly about.
What is a summary?
When looking at a writing passage, I had to add, remove, move, or substitute, words, phrases or sentences. Is this revising or editing?
REVISING
A way of expressing oneself that does not use a word or phrase's literal meaning.
What is figurative language?
A story that could happen in real life, but the plot and characters are fictional.
What is realistic fiction?