Vocabulary
Word Study
Biography/Autobiography
Story Elements
Dramatic Literature
100
An educated guess made using story clues and what you already know.
What is an inference?
100
A word part added to the beginning of a word to change the word's meaning.
What is a prefix?
100
A book that is written about a person by someone else.
What is a biography?
100
The basic sequence of events in a story.
What is the plot?
100
The lines spoken between characters in fiction or a play. The main way in the plot, character and other elements are established.
What is dialogue?
200
Language that describes what is seen, heard, smelled, tasted or touched in writing
What is sensory language?
200
Words like washer, musician, motion, and admission follow this spelling pattern.
What is ways to spell the /sh/ sound?
200
The possible purposes for reading a biography.
What are to learn about a person and to be entertained?
200
To tell the main points and ideas of a story in a shorter form. It tells about the beginning, middle and end of a story.
What is a summary?
200
Another name for dramatic literature when we "act" out a script without props or costumes using only our voice.
What is Reader's Theater?
300
A word element, such as a prefix or a suffix that occurs before of after a root or base word to change the meaning of the word.
What is an affix?
300
Words that sound alike, are spelled differently and mean two different things.
What are homophones?
300
The graphic organizer we could use to compare and contrast the characters in a biography and a fiction story about the same person.
What is a Venn Diagram?
300
The perspective from which the events in the story are told.
What is the point of view?
300
One part of a play that tells some of the events in that section.
What is an act or a scene?
400
Specific details or facts found in text to support an answer or inference.
What is textual evidence?
400
The suffix in the word enjoyment.
What is -ment?
400
A book written about a person that is written by the same person the book is about.
What is autobiography?
400
Where and when the story takes place.
What is the setting?
400
Another word for a written play that tells a story through dialogue.
What is drama or dramatic literature?
500
The use of language to create mental imagers and sensory impressions.
What is imagery?
500
The root word in graphite?
What is graph?
500
When an author asks a person questions about their life to be able to write about that person.
What is an interview?
500
The message or lesson the author wants the reader to learn from the story.
What is the theme?
500
A play might have parts in brackets that are not read as part of the play, but tell what to do or how to say something.
What are stage directions?
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