Reading Genres
This genre is passed down from generation to generation
What is a FOLKTALE?
What is a NOUN?
Another word for the name of a story
What is the TITLE?
What is 2?
Another word for the pictures on a page
What is an ILLUSTRATION?
This genre is fictional and tells about something that is not real, such as a story about Big Foot or the Loch Ness Monster
What is a MYTH?
An "action word"
What is a VERB?
When you space at the beginning of a new paragraph
What is to INDENT?
Words that end with the same sound
Ex: splat, cat, mat
What is RHYME?
The words underneath an illustration
What is a CAPTION?
This genre usually teaches a lesson and uses animals as the main characters
What is a FABLE?
What is an ADVERB?
What are SEQUENCE words?
These words have the same thing in common:
flap, flick, flair, fling
What is HAVE THE SAME BEGINNING SOUND?
(FL)
This page gives the titles of each chapter and tells what page number each chapter begins on
What is a TABLE OF CONTENTS?
This genre is the story of a person's life
What is a BIOGRAPHY?
Describes a noun
What is an ADJECTIVE?
The end of friendly letter
Ex: Sincerely,
What is the CLOSING?
What is "EA"?
This section gives the meaning of unknown words in a book
What is the GLOSSARY?
This genre is written in stanzas that may or may not rhyme
What is a POEM?
This is a 2 or 3 word phrase that gives even more of a description in a sentence
The main part of a friendly letter (after the greeting)
What is the BODY?
Ex: -ful, -ly, -ing
What is a SUFFIX?
Typically at the end of a book, these pages list topics in the book in ABC order and give the page numbers for each topic within the book
What is the INDEX?