Vocabulary
A concise retelling of a text's main points and key details. The 5Ws (Who, What Where, When, Why)
What is summary?
An organizational structure where events are arranged in the order they occur.
What is chronological/sequential order?
What is tone?
The main character in the story.
What is the protagonist?
Boom! Pop! Crash!
What is an onomatopoeia?
What is passage is mostly about; the who or what plus the most important thing about the who or what.
What is the main idea?
Description of a photograph or illustration.
What is a caption?
What is mood?
The events in a story.
What is plot?
My sister has a heart of gold.
What is a metaphor?
An educated guess based on text information and background knowledge.
What is an inference?
An organizational structure where a text shows a problem and then offers solution to that problem.
What is problem and solution?
A collection of lines in a poem; similar to a paragraph.
What is a stanza?
Where and when the story takes place.
What is setting?
The sly snake slithers slowly on the sand.
What is an alliteration?
The reason an author writes to persuade, inform, entertain, explain, describes.
What is author's purpose?
A perspective (lens) through which a story is told.
What is point of view?
The person who narrates a poem.
What is the speaker?
What is exposition?
The tiny moons rays danced on the ocean waves.
What is personification?
The message or moral lesson represented in the story.
What is theme?
Determining the meaning of an unknown word using surrounding text.
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What is context clues?
The use of the same words or phrases over and over.
What is repetition?
Events that increase tension about the conflict.
What is rising action?
I was dying of laughter from the silly joke.