Comprehension
This is the "lesson" or "moral" the author wants you to learn from a story.
Theme
When you see a comma or a period, a fluent reader does this.
Pause
Words like "small," "tiny," and "minuscule" that have similar meanings are called this.
Synonyms
This type of story often starts with "Once upon a time," has magic or royalty, and usually ends with "Happily ever after."
Fairy Tale
This is the most commonly used letter in the English language.
E
When you use clues from the story plus what you already know to figure something out, you are doing this.
Making an Inference
This is the term for reading with feeling and changing your voice to match the characters.
Expression or Prosody
Your teacher says your handwriting is "legible," what does that mean?
Easy to read
This is a book that is 100% true. It is written to give you information about real people, places, or things.
Non-Fiction OR Informational Text
This is the only number whose name has the same number of letters as the number itself.
Four
This is the perspective from which a story is told, such as first-person or third-person.
Point of View
These punctuation marks " " tell a reader exactly when to change their voice because a character is starting to speak.
Quotation Marks
In the word "unbelievable," the letters "un-" are known as this.
Prefix
A book written by a person about their own life is called this.
Autobiography
J.K. Rowling is the famous author of this book series about a young wizard.
Harry Potter
A "Stanza" in a poem is most similar to this in a regular essay or story.
A paragraph
If a reader trips over a word and the sentence doesn't make sense, the best fluent readers do this immediately to fix it.
Reread the sentence
If a person is "industrious, what does this mean?
Hard-Working
In this type of story, there is usually a "puzzle" to solve, a "crime" to uncover, or a "secret" that is revealed at the very end.
Mystery
Many of your favorite movies, like Diary of a Wimpy Kid, The Hunger Games, and Harry Potter, all started out as this first.
Books
This type of text structure explains why something happened and what the result was.
Cause & Effect
"Stop right there," Lily whispered. She pointed to a tiny, glowing door in the garden wall. Was it a fairy house? Or was it just a trick of the light? Lily took a deep breath. She reached out her hand and—click—the door swung open. "I found it!" she shouted. "I really found it!"
The "Pro" Checklist:
Whisper vs. Shout: Did they change their volume for the dialogue?
The Dash (—): Did they pause briefly before the "click"?
The Question: Did their voice go up at the end of "light?"
What does it mean for an athlete to be "resilient?"
the strength to keep trying, learning, and staying positive after making a mistake, facing a challenge, or feeling sad
OR
adapts to difficult situations rather than giving up
OR
having the ability to "bounce back" when things get tough
This genre uses "made-up" science, like robots, aliens, or time travel, and usually takes place in the future.
Science-Fiction
A single wooden pencil has enough graphite in it to write a line that is how many miles long?
(Hint: It’s more than 10 but less than 50!)
35 miles!