Literature
Where the story takes place.
What is the setting?
What are maps, picture, captions and sidebars examples of?
Text features
The three main parts of an essay
What is the introduction, body paragraphs, and conclusion?
Words that are used to describe something.
What are adjectives?
A word part added to the end of a word such as -ly or -ed
What is a suffix?
The problem in the story.
What is the conflict?
What the author wanted you to learn about the main topic.
What is the main idea?
The three main features of a body paragraph,
What are topic sentence, evidence, and analysis/explanation?
End punctuation and a complete thought.
The Greek root word for see.
What is spec?
Something author wants you to learn and use in your life.
What is a theme?
The way the author organized the information in a non fiction text.
What is text structure?
The main idea of your essay.
What is a thesis statement?
An incomplete thought. Example: The girl was.
What is a fragment?
A strategy using the words around a word to figure out the meaning of an unfamiliar word.
What is a context clue?
The exposition, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action and the resolution.
What does the plot include?
A text structure that is signaled by words like like, unlike, the same and different.
What is compare and contrast?
A clever way to get your reader interested in reading about the topic.
What is the hook?
Punctuation that ends a statement.
What is a period?
A word that means nearly the same thing as another word.
What is a synonym?
How the conflict in the story gets solved.
What is the resolution?
Compare/contrast, sequence, problem/solution, cause/effect and descriptive.
What are text structures?
Restating the thesis, restate your reasons concisely, concluding sentence.
What are the parts of a great conclusion?
Words that are used to describe actions.
What are adverbs?
A word that means the opposite of a word.
What is an antonym?