Text Structure
Reading Strategy
Elements of Literature
Word Study
Grammar Focus
100
Made up of stanzas, rhyming words, repetition and images.
What is a poem?
100
Includes words that help readers make pictures in their minds.
What is using images?
100
Ends of words can sound exactly the same or similar.
What are rhyming words?
100
Shortened forms of words with an apostrophe.
What are contractions?
100
This is made up of a preposition and an object.
What is a prepositional phrase?
200
The story of a person's life written by another person.
What is a biography?
200
The most important thing that the writer wants you to know and pieces of information that show you it is true.
What is main idea and supporting details?
200
Writers order events as they happen from first to last.
What is chronological order?
200
The names for people, important places, and some time words.
What are proper nouns?
200
Two words to explain an action.
What are two-word verbs?
300
A record of daily events usually not meant to be read by others.
What is a diary?
300
The order in which events happen.
What is chronology?
300
The atitude or feeling that a writer shows in a piece of writing.
What is tone?
300
A suffix that shows that a word is a noun.
What is -ion?
300
A word like and or but that can join two sentences.
What is a conjunction?
400
Something written to present to an audience.
What is a speech?
400
Something that is true and something that is a belief.
What is fact and opinion?
400
When something is written formally or informally, the writer's attitude toward the subject, and the feeling the writer wants the audience to get.
What are style, tone, and mood?
400
When meanings go beyond the usual defintions in a dictionary.
What is figurative language?
400
Used to compare three or more people, places, or things.
What are superlative adjectives?
500
Something that tells people about the people and events that the writer remembers.
What is a memoir?
500
To make a true statement based on the information in the reading and your own experience.
What is drawing conclusions?
500
Gives clues about what is going to happen.
What is foreshadowing?
500
Combining two smaller words into one larger word.
What are compound words?
500
Words that stand for nouns and what they refer to.
What are pronoun referents?
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