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Text Structures
Reading Strategy
Figurative Langugae
Reading
Genres
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This text is written in numerical order. It describes the order of events or how to do something.
What is Chronological Order or Sequence.
100

Mr. Pinto's favorite baseball team?

San Diego Padres

100
A comparison of two things using "like" or "as."
What is Simile.
100
This tells what a paragraph is mostly aboout.
What is main idea.
100
A story using made-up characters that could happen in real life.
What is Realistic Fiction.
200
This text is written in a way that tells the cause or causes of events and the effect.
What is Cause and Effect text.
200
This reading strategy is used when you write out little details or notes to remind the reader of important information.
What is Annotation.
200
Using words to create pictures in your mind.
What is Imagery.
200

The reason for the authors writing?

Authors purpose

200
The story of a real person's life written by another person.
What is biography.
300
A text that explains how two or more people, places, or things are alike and how they are different.
What is Compare and Contrast.
300

What strategy involves connecting the text to your own experiences?

Text-to-self

300
Giving human characteristics or actions to non human things. Ex. The wind sang through the meadow.
What is Personification.
300

Mr. Pinto's favorite Football team?

Vikings

300
A story including elements that are impossible such as talking animals or magical powers.
What is Fantasy.
400

What is Mr. Pinto's favorite color?

Red

400
These are words the author uses to help the reader understand unfamiliar words.
What is Context Clues.
400
A comparison of two unlike things WITHOUT using "like" or "as."
What is Metaphor.
400
Putting information together to make an educated or logical guess.
What is Making Inferences.
400
This text explains how two or more people, places or things are alike and how they are different.
What is Compare and Contrast text.
500
In this text, the author presents a problem and one ore more solutions to the problem.
What is Problem and Solution text.
500
Anything an author uses to give more information or to clarify information in the text. Ex. photographs
What is text features.
500
Using repeating beginning sounds. Ex. Six Silly Snakes Slithered...
What is Alliteration.
500
The sequence of events that tell a story. This includes background, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution.
What is the plot.
500
A fictional story that takes place in a particular time period in the past. Often the setting is real, but the characters are made up from the author's imagination.
What is Historical Fiction.