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Fiction
Informational Text
Reading Strategies
Genres
Literary Terms
100
the person telling the story
Who is the narrator?
100
a piece of information that can be proven to be true.
What is a fact?
100
making a reasonable guess about something based on facts and details from the passage
What is making inferences?
100
a story that teaches a lesson
What is a fable?
100
the person in a story, poem, or play
What is a character?
200
the position of the speaker of the work (could be first person, second person, third person limited, or third person omniscient)
What is the point of view?
200
a statement that cannot be proven to be true, or a personal view of something.
What is an opinion?
200
making decisions based on facts and details in the passage
What is drawing conclusions?
200
exciting stories that involve some sort of danger for the main character
What are adventure stories?
200
the main problem or struggle that takes place in a passage
What is conflict?
300
the pattern of events that takes place in a passage or story.
What is plot?
300
what the passage is about
What is the main idea?
300
writing or saying a short description of the passage that gives the main points
What is summarizing?
300
a story of a person's life, written by another person
What is a biography?
300
how the author expresses himself or herself
What is style?
400
where and when the events in a story take place
What is the setting?
400
details that support the main idea
What are supporting details?
400
making a guess about what will happen in the future
What is making predictions?
400
a story about a significant event in a person's life, written by the person who experienced the event
What is a memoir?
400
the central idea of a passage or the lesson or message that the author wants to convey
What is the theme?
500
how a text makes the reader feel, or the feelings created in the reader
What is mood?
500
a second part of the title
What is a subtitle?
500
reading a passage carefully and paying attention to the details of the passage
What is close reading?
500
a poem written to praise something
What is an ode?
500
the words spoken by characters in a play
What is dialogue?