Text Structure
Reading Strategy
Elements of Literature
Word Study
Grammar Focus
100
Begin with specific facts that lead to a general conclusion.
What is inductive text?
100
All the information that helps you to understand the main idea.
What are supporting details?
100
The author describes earlier events.
What is flashback?
100
Greek and Latin word forms.
What are roots?
100
Clauses that begin with "although" or "when".
What are dependent clauses?
200
Stories told orally and passed down.
What is folktale?
200
The exact words the character says.
What is dialogue?
200
What the characters are like through what they say, think, and do.
What are character traits?
200
Word parts added to the beginnings of words.
What are prefixes?
200
Words such as "once" "finally" or "soon" to show time.
What are adverbs?
300
Describes real events as they happened.
What is nonfiction narrative?
300
Illustrations, maps, timelines.
What are graphic sources of information?
300
The author is the narrator of the story.
What is first person point of view?
300
Add -ed to make regular forms.
What is past tense?
300
The word "to" followed by the simple form of a verb.
What is infinitive?
400
A made-up story about made-up people.
What is fiction?
400
To see how things are the same and how they are different.
What is compare and contrast?
400
The way writers use language.
What is style?
400
Scientific and formal words come from this language.
What is Latin?
400
A clause introduced by a relative pronoun such as "that".
What is a relative clause?
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