Reading Fiction
The location and time of a story
What is the setting?
The title, glossary, illustrations, captions, sidebars, and headings are called this.
What are text features?
One or two words describing the subject of a passage.
What is Topic
I love going to baseball games they are so much fun.
The incorrect sentence above is an example of this type of sentence.
What is a run-on sentence?
The big lesson or moral of a story.
What is Theme?
This strategy is useful when reading multiple sources and combining their ideas into a new understanding.
What is synthesizing?
This is a short version of the story that includes just the important details.
What is the summary?
"The bright orange walls screamed at her as she walked into the room." is an example of what type of figurative language?
What is personification?
This is the action part of the sentence.
What is the predicate/ verb?
This is what the passage is mostly about?
What is the main idea?
Background knowledge + text evidence
What is an inference?
A biography about Harriet Tubman would be this type of nonfiction.
What is narrative nonfiction?
The 3 things that are author's purpose.
Persuade, Inform, Entertain
A word that describes a noun
What is an adjective?
One or two words describing the subject of a passage.
What is topic?
When the story is told from the perspective of the narrator or using words like "I" or "me".
What is the first person point of view (POV)?
A book explaining the process of photosynthesis would be this type of nonfiction.
What is expository nonfiction?
To describe how things are alike and how they are different
What is compare and contrast?
A person place or thing.
What is a noun?
This must be inferred and is not directly stated in a passage.
What is theme?
The main events of a drama, book, movie, etc. that consists of an exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.
What is a plot?
Chronological order, sequence of events, problem and solution are all examples of this.
What is text structure or how the text is organized?
Which figurative language is the following sentence?
She is a tornado when she gets angry!
Metaphor
What two punctation marks are used when showing dialogue?
Quotation marks and comma
What is the author’s purpose if they are explaining how volcanoes erupt?
What is to Inform?