Reading Comp.
Fiction
Non-fiction
Vocabulary
Figurative Language
100

What the author or a character thinks or feels about someone or something.

What is Perspective

100

The underlying message the author wants the reader to get after reading a story.

What is a Theme?

100

It is the main point the author wants to make about a topic.

What is the Central Idea?

100

Words that have the same spelling but have different meanings and pronunciation

What is a Homograph?

100

Identify the figurative language device:

Snap! Crackle! Pop! Rice Krispies!

What is an Onomatopoeia?

200

To persuade, inform, or entertain a reader through their writing.

What is Author’s Purpose

200

They describe a character’s personality and can be determined by the character’s thoughts, feelings, and words.

What are Character Traits?

200

The author’s opinion about a topic that is supported by evidence.

What is a claim (author’s claim)?

200

Words that sound the same but have different meanings

What is an Homophone?

200

Identify the figurative language:

Kelsey’s fingers were icicles when she came in the house after playing in the snow.

What is a Metaphor?

300

The challenge, obstacle, or struggle a character must face in a story

What is Conflict?

300

The setting, characters, conflict and events that make up a story

What are Story Elements?

300

The way the author organizes information in a piece of writing.

What is Text Structure?

300

Words that have the same spelling and pronunciation but have different meanings

What is a Homonym?

300

Identify the figurative language:

The stars played hide and go seek.

What is Personification?

400

The important details of a text, directly supporting the Central Idea of a text

What are Relevant Details?

400

The events of the story that tell the main parts of the story in sequential order (beginning, middle, and end).

What is the Plot?

400

Elements of a story or an article that helps the reader to better understand the topic (may be apart of the text or an addition to the text).

What is Text Feature?

400

A word or letters added to the beginning of a root or base word to change its meaning.

What is a Prefix?

400

Identify the figurative language:

If I've told you once, I've told you a million times!

What is a Hyperbole?

500

When an author develops a character by telling us what the think, do, and feel

What is Characterization?

500

The part of a story where the problem and an intense action come together.

What is the Climax?

500

A literary text that may follow a rhyme scheme, rhythm or pattern

What is a Poem?

or

What is Poetry?

500

Hints in a sentence or paragraph that help us understand the meaning of a word we may not know.

What are Context Clues?

500

Identify the figurative language:

It's raining cats and dogs!

What is an Idiom?