Story Elements
Author's Purpose
Poetry
Text Features
Study Tips
100
Fiction always includes this description of time and place.
What is setting?
100

This is the acronym to remember the types of author's purpose.

PIEED

100
A group of lines in poetry, similar to a paragraph.
What is a stanza?
100
This text feature helps me know what words are important in the text.
What is BOLDED words?
100

A ___________ is about a person's life.

What is biography?

200
The point of view told by someone in the story.
What is first person?
200

What are the 5 types of author's purpose?

What is persuade, inform, entertain, explain, and describe?

200
A group of words, they go from the left to the right and may or may not have punctuation at the end.
What is a line?
200

This text feature explains what a picture is about.

What is a caption?

200

This is the order you should go when tackling paired passages.

Passage 1, Questions to Passage 1, Passage 2, Questions to Passage 2, Questions about both.

300
These are based on the actions and words of the characters.
What are character traits?
300
Tha author's purpose of an advertisement about the best features of an ipad that includes words like you should and best.
What is to pursuade?
300
Poetry that does not rhyme.
What is free verse?
300

This text feature organizes the text and tells what each section is about.

What is a heading?

300

An ______ is something that cannot be proven and is not true for everyone.

What is opinion?

400
Authors sometimes includes this hidden message or lesson in their stories.
What is a theme?
400

USUALLY the author's purpose for writing fiction.

What is to entertain?

400
True or False. Poetry can tell a story.
What is true?
400

True or False:  Charts and graphs are not important to the reader and can be skipped over.

What is FALSE?

400
This is how many words you should highlight/box/underline at a time.

What is up to 4 words?

500
The point of view when he, she, it, or they is primarily used?
What is third person?
500

The author's purpose of a newspaper article detailing the dangers of playing video games all day is _______________.

What is to inform?

500

This type of poem is like a song.

What is lyrical?

500

These are the different ways an author may organize their text.

What is cause and effect, compare and contrast, problem and solution, and sequence?

500

The answer is not exactly typed out in the passage. You must use text evidence and background knowledge to find the right answer.

What is inferencing?