Fiction
Characterization
Nonfiction
Test-Taking Vocabulary
Word Analysis
Text Features
100
The character with the main conflict or issue
What is a main character?
100
An adjective used to describe a character's personality
What is a trait?
100
writing that is about facts and real events
What is nonfiction?
100
a complete thought ending with a period, question mark, or exclamation mark
What is a sentence?
100
a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y; all words contain at least one
What is a vowel?
100
helps the reader to know what something looks like; taken with a camera
What is a photograph?
200
The person telling the story
Who is the narrator?
200
An emotional state or reaction
What are feelings?
200
the most important idea from the text or what the text is mostly about
What is main idea?
200
a small group of words standing together
What is a phrase?
200
any letter that is not a vowel
What is a consonant?
200
helps the reader to understand what is happening in the illustration or photograph
What is a caption?
300
The most important conflict or the cause of all the other conflicts
What is the main conflict?
300
How the character reacts to a situation
What is response?
300
the facts or text evidence used to support the main idea
What are details or what are supporting details?
300
four or more sentences focused on one topic
What is a paragraph?
300
a part of a word that contains one vowel sound
What is a syllable?
300
helps the reader to identify key topics in the book and the page number each topic is found on; found in the front book
What is a table of contents?
400
How the conflict is resolved
What is resolution?
400
What the character is working towards
What is a goal?
400
added to a nonfiction text to help the reader better understand the information in the text
What are text features?
400
an asking sentence
What is a question?
400
words that sound the same but are spelled differently, like ate and eight
What is a homophone?
400
helps the reader to understand where places are located
What is a map?
500
Where and when a story takes place
What is setting?
500
The reason why a character says or does something
What is motivation?
500
definitions of bold words from the text; found in the back of the book
What is a glossary?
500
the ordering of events or steps from first to last
What is sequence?
500
a word with the same or similar meaning as another word
What is a synonym?
500
a simple image or picture using labels to explain where something is or how something works
What is a diagram?
600
The action in the story
What are events?
600
Words used to describe a character's traits, feelings, or emotions
What are attributes?
600
a true story written about another person’s life
What is a biography?
600
to tell the most important events in your own words; include characters, setting, and conflict and resolution
What is summarize or what is a summary?
600
a word opposite in meaning to another word
What is an antonym?
600
breaks text into small sections and helps the reader to understand what the section of text will be about
What is a heading?
700
The lesson, moral, or message
What is theme?
700
to use what I know and what the story says to figure out what is happening or how a character is feeling
What is infer or what is inference?
700
a true story of a real person’s life from the past or present written by that person
What is an autobiography?
700
the part of the text or details used to support your answer
What is evidence?
700
a unit of meaning that can stand alone as a whole word; a prefix and/or suffix can be attached to build a new word
What is a root or free root?
700
signals the reader that this an important word to know
What is a bold, italicized, or underlined word?