Vocabulary
prefix meaning "again"
What is re-?
The events in a story
What is a plot?
Test that is made up, not true
What is fiction?
The description of a photograph, diagram, or illustration located near the picture.
What is a caption?
When a reader makes a guess about what will happen next in a text.
What is predict?
Two words that have the same or similar meaning
What is a synonym?
When and where a story takes place
What is the setting?
Test that has only real, true facts and information
What is nonfiction?
A picture that shows the parts of or how something works (usually labeled).
What is a diagram?
A retelling the important parts of the text in order to give the gist of what the text is all about. Usually a few sentences long.
What is a summary?
The two words at the top of a dictionary page that tell you what the first and last entries are on that page.
What are guide words?
How a character thinks or feels most of the time
What are character traits?
A poem that tells a story
What is a narrative poem?
An alphabetical list of important subjects within the text and the page numbers on which they can be found. Located at the end of the book.
What is an index?
Using background knowledge + clues from the text to draw conclusions about what the author want the reader to know, but the author doesn't come right out and say it. Reading between the lines.
What is making an inference?
Words an author uses to create a picture in your mind
sensory language, imagery
The main message or lesson a story teaches
What is theme?
A true story about a person's life written by someone else
What is a biography?
A list of words and their definitions, located at the end of the text.
What is a glossary?
What a text (or portion of a text) is mostly about (usually a short phrase or one sentence long).
What is the main idea?
Two words that sound alike but are spelled differently and mean different things.
What are homophones?
the most exciting part of a story
What is the climax?
A nonfiction text that give information about a certain subject
Expository text
A list of the books sections located in the front of the book to let the reader know how the text is organized.
What is a table of contents?
Relating what you are reading to what you know and to your own thoughts, feelings, and/or memories.
What is connecting?