Fiction
This is the lesson or message a story teaches you.
What is the theme?
A book that lists words and definitions in alphabetical order.
What is a dictionary?
A group of lines in a poem, like a paragraph.
What is a stanza?
The words around a tricky word that help you figure out its meaning.
What are context clues?
When a question asks how two things are alike, it wants you to _______.
What is compare?
The people or animals in a story.
What are the characters?
The first page in a nonfiction book that lists the sections or chapters of the book.
What is the table of contents?
Words that have the same ending sound.
What is a rhyme?
A word that means the opposite of another word.
What is an antonym?
When a question asks how two things are different, it wants you to ______.
The place and time a story happens.
What is the setting?
A sentence or short paragraph at the bottom of an image that helps explain it.
What is a caption?
A type of poem that does not rhyme.
What is free verse?
A word that means the same as another word.
What is a synonym?
If the question is asking what the passage is mostly about, it's asking the ____ ______.
What is a key idea/main idea/central idea?
The problem in a story.
What is the conflict?
The text feature at the back of the book that helps you find important words and their meanings.
What is the glossary?
Words or descriptions that create a picture in your head.
Guess what happens next in the text/story.
What is predict?
What is text evidence?
The turning point in the story, usually near the end.
What is the climax.
A text feature that tells you a word might be important or that it is in the back of the book with a definition.
What are bold print words?
Giving something that is not a human, human like qualities.
What is personification?
Use clues to figure something out.
What is infer/make an inference?
What is author's purpose?