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LITERARY TEXTS
INFORMATIONAL TEXTS
VOCABULARY
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE & POETRY
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100
The location and time in which a story takes place.
What is the setting?
100
A list of words and definitions.
What is the glossary?
100
A word that means almost the same thing.
What is a synonym?
100
"The tiny white flowers dotted the morning mountainside like patches of snow" is an example of this.
What is a simile?
100

How long will you have on the Reading FSA?

80 minutes

200
This is when a character is talking.
What is dialogue?
200
A picture that includes labels of certain parts.
What is a diagram?
200
A word that means the opposite.
What is an antonym?
200
"The stars were candles guiding the weary travelers" is an example of this.
What is a metaphor?
200
When the text outlines chorological events or a list of steps in a procedure.

Order and Sequence 

300
This is the list of people in a play.
What is the cast of characters?
300
A passage that is explained in order of when the events happened uses this text structure.
What is chronological order?
300
This reference lists synonyms for words.
What is a thesaurus?
300
"This cat weights a ton" is an example of this.
What is a hyperbole?
300

Text provides details or characteristics of something

Description



Example: Ice cream is a frozen, sugary sweet delicacy. The treat comes in flavors like vanilla.

400
This is the part of the story when the suspense peaks and the problem is solved.
What is the turning point?
400
This is at the end of an article and it lists the sources the author used to write the passage.
What is a bibliography?
400
When this is added to the beginning of a root word, it makes a new word and chenges the meaning of the word.
What is a prefix?
400
"Storm clouds threatened to flood the wheat fields in the Midwestern region" is an example of this.
What is personification?
400

What point of view is this...

The narrator is a character in the story. They are a part of the action! The narrator will use words like: I, Me, My, Us, Ours, We

1st person 

500
This is the deeper meaning or the insight the story teaches about life.
What is theme?
500
The paragraph that usually reemphasizes and summarizes the main idea in an informational passage.
What is the last paragraph or conclusion
500
Words that sound the same but have different spellings and different meanings.
What are homophones?
500
"Rain drummed a steady tempo on the roof" is an example of this.
What is imagery?
500

The message the author is trying to teach us in the story

The Theme