Fact Finding (Informational Text)
This is the main point the author wants the reader to understand about a topic.
What is the Main Idea?
This is the perspective from which a story is told, such as first-person or third-person.
What is Point of View?
These are words that have the same or similar meanings, like "happy" and "joyful."
What are Synonyms?
This part of speech describes a noun, such as "blue" or "sticky."
What is an Adjective?
This is the first sentence of a paragraph that tells the reader what that paragraph will be about.
What is a Topic Sentence?
These are pieces of information from the text that prove or support the main idea.
What is key details?
This is the "lesson" or "moral" the author wants the reader to learn from a story.
What is the Theme?
This is a group of letters added to the beginning of a word to change its meaning.
What is a Prefix?
A sentence that is missing either a subject or a predicate is called this.
What is a Fragment?
Authors use these "linking" words, like "First," "Next," and "Finally," to help their writing flow.
What are Transition Words?
This text feature is found at the beginning of a book and lists chapters and page numbers.
What is the Table of Contents?
This part of the plot is the "turning point" or the most exciting part of the story.
What is the Climax?
If a word has multiple meanings, you use these surrounding words to figure out which one fits.
What are Context Clues?
This punctuation mark is used to separate items in a list or before a conjunction in a compound sentence.
What is a Comma?
This type of writing is used to tell a story, whether it is real or imagined.
What is Narrative writing?
An author uses this text structure to explain how two things are alike and how they are different.
What is Compare and Contrast?
Words like "bang," "hiss," and "pow" are examples of this type of figurative language.
What is Onomatopoeia?)
This figurative phrase says one thing is another, like "The snow is a white blanket."
What is a Metaphor?
These are words that sound the same but have different spellings and meanings, like "their," "there," and "they're."
What are Homophones?
When you give credit to a source you used for research, you are doing this.
What is Citing?
When you use what you know plus clues from the text to "read between the lines," you are doing this.
What is inferring/making an inference?
In a story, the "Protagonist" is usually the hero, while this person is the character working against them.
What is the Antagonist?
The Greek root "bio" found in the words biology and biography means this.
What is Life?
This is the correct way to write the plural form of the word "loaf."
What is Loaves?
This is the stage of the writing process where you fix "glows and grows" and change the content to make it better.
What is Revising?