Academic Vocabulary
What is the difference between a synonym and antonym?
Synonyms are words with similar meanings and Antonyms are words with opposite meanings.
How can you understand the interactions between characters?
By examining what characters do, think and say. Examine how characters behave with other characters.
How can you identify a text as a Biography?
It is a story written about a person's life accomplishments told in chronological order. It is written in third person.
What information can the reader learn from the title and subheadings of informational text?
The main topic and supporting information topics
(What you are going to read about)
How is a poem organized?
Lines and stanzas; may have a rhyming pattern
What is the difference between a prefix and a suffix?
Prefix are word parts added to the beginning of a word.
Suffix are word parts added to the ending of a word.
Both change the meanings of words.
What must be included in a good summary for fictional stories?
BME and the problem/solution
What type of graphic organizer would you create to take notes for this type of text?
Sequence of events
What type of graphic organizer would be best to use to take notes for this type of text?
Main Idea and supporting details
How do you know you are reading a narrative poem?
It tells a story
What does the word dialogue refer to? How can it be identified when reading?
Conversation between two or more people. It can be identified when reading by the use of parenthesis "".
What is the best graphic organizer to make for summarizing fictional stories?
SWBSTT
What would be included in a good summary of this type of text?
BME T (Title) Most important accomplishments of the person's life.
What should be included in a good summary for this type of text?
BME T (Main idea from each section)
What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor?
Simile makes a comparison between two things using the words like or as
Metaphor makes a comparison between two things by saying something is something else
What terms are used for identifying the overall understanding (meaning) of informational text?
main idea, central idea, message, author's purpose
What is a synonym for the word problem as refers to the "character's problem"?
Conflict
How does the author usually end this type of text?
By restating why this person is so important and possibly what contributions this person made to our world.
What might the author include in this type of text to help the reader understand Informational Text?
Text and Graphic Features?
What is imagery? What might a poet use to create imagery?
visual descriptions
figurative language
What terms are used for identifying the overall understanding (meaning) of fictional text?
theme, lesson, message, author's purpose
What are the steps to understanding the theme of fiction? What other words are used for Theme?
Examine the characters problem, how they go about solving it and how the character changed. How could you use this in your own life?
Theme, lesson, message
What is the Author's Purpose for writing biographies?
The Author's purpose for writing the selection is to share information about the contributions of the person.
What does the reader have to do to make a conclusion?
(After reading the selection the reader can conclude ?)
Make logical inference based on evidence from the text and background knowledge. (EVIDENCE from the text is important!)
What is sensory language?
Words and phrases that connect to the five senses and describe how something looks, smells, tastes, feels or sounds.