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Reading Skills
3rd Grade
Reading Terms
3rd Grade Spelling
3rd Grade
100

What is it called when we give animals and non-human objects human-like qualities?

Personification
100

What is PIE?

Persaude, Inform and Entertain

Author's Purpose

100

Name the three main parts of a story's PLOT

Rising action, Climax, Resolution

100

How do you spell the plural form of baby?

babies

100

Sometimes the lines rhyme in this type of text

Poem

200

What is one strategy you can use during your FAST test?

Circle Key Words in the question

Go back and look in the text

get rid of answers that you know are wrong

find the best answer (not just good)

200

When reading a nonfiction text, we find this to help us better understand what the author is trying to explain. It is often repeated 

Central Idea

DAILY DOUBLE

200
What the story or passage is about

The topic

200

How do you spell the plural form of fox

foxes

200

A person, place or thing 

Noun

300

Comparing two things using like or as

Similes 

300

Words that help you figure out what a word means in a passage.

Context Clues

DAILY DOUBLE

300

The person that writes a story.

Author

300

How do you spell the plural form of mouse?

mice

DAILY DOUBLE

300

What text feature is found under or beside a photograph?

caption

400

What should you do tonight at home to help you feel prepared for the FAST test tomorrow?

Eat a good dinner, SLEEP, a good breakfast

400

The order of events in a story is called?

chronology 


400

Where a story takes place.

Setting

400

How do you spell the plural form of book?

books

400

What do you call "paragraphs" in a poem?

stanzas 

DAILY DOUBLE

500
Name the four types of poems

Free Verse

Rhymed Verse

Limerick

Haiku

500

What do we call the "lesson" or "moral" in the story?

Theme

500

- What the author wants you to believe is true about the passage is called the _______ ________.

Author's Claim


500

how do you spell the plural form of tooth?

teeth

500

An action word 

Verb