Key Ideas and Details
The deeper message or life lesson in a story.
What is theme?
Comparing two things using “like” or “as.”
What is a simile?
The way an author organizes information in a text.
What is text structure?
Illustrations, graphics, or media that support a story.
What are visual elements?
The reason an author writes a text.
What is author’s purpose?
This includes only the most important events from beginning, middle, and end.
What is a summary?
Giving human traits to non-human things.
What is personification?
The turning point or most exciting part of a story.
What is the climax?
A category like fantasy, realistic fiction, or myth.
What is genre?
When an author wants to convince you of something.
What is persuade?
The time and place of a story.
What is setting?
Words or phrases that have meanings beyond their literal definition.
What is figurative language?
The problem in a story is called this.
What is the conflict?
Stories with magic or unreal elements belong to this genre.
What is fantasy?
When comparing two texts on the same topic, you are doing this.
What is compare and contrast?
Events that happen in a story are called this.
What is the plot?
Clues in the sentence that help define unknown words.
What are context clues?
How the problem gets solved.
What is resolution?
A text feature that may accompany a text, which adds information on the sequence of events.
What is a timeline?
Authors support their points using these.
What are reasons and evidence?
When one event makes another happen.
What is cause and effect?
A comparison that does not use “like” or “as.”
What is a metaphor?
Signal words like “first,” “next,” and “finally” show this structure.
What is sequence?
This visual element provides the location information of places mentioned in the text.
What is a map?
An article full of facts, definitions, and explanations is most likely written for this purpose.
What is to inform?