Characters, plot, setting, climax, problem and solution
What are some characteristics of fiction?
100
Subtitles, headings, photographs, graphics, and diagrams
What are characteristics of an expository text?
100
A story that reads like a play that tells you what happens in the background.
What is drama?
100
A creative way to talk or write about something that often rhymes.
What is a poem?
100
Persuasive
What is a text that tries to convince the reader of his/her view about an issue?
200
Rising Action
What is the part of a fictional text that includes the events that lead up to the climax of the story?
What do we call the part of a fictional story when the plot becomes more intense and the suspence builds before the climax, or turning point?
200
Animals, people, places, events, times in history, etc.
What are topics/subjects that authors could use to write expository texts?
200
Italicized words that tell the reader about the character's actions, movements, attitudes, thoughts, etc.
What are stage directions?
200
Figurative language and words that refer to the title
What compoments of a poem do I use to track my thinking?
200
Procedural
What is a text that gives instructions on how to do something?
300
What characters do, say, feel, how they change, their relationships, and their motives
How do I track my thinking in a fictional text?
300
A text that gives us information or data about a topic.
What is an expository text?
300
Narrator
What is a person (or persons) who tell the audience information about parts of the story in a play?
300
Rhythm, rhyme, refrain, stanzas, sensory words, etc.
What are characteristics of poetry?
300
Newspaper ads, internet ads, newspaper letters to the editor
What are examples of persuasive texts?
400
A story that is made up or untrue. It could be fantasy or realistic.
What is Fiction?
400
Subtitles
What are the small bold headings for sections of an expository text that give the reader a glimpse of the main idea of the sections?
400
The characters and the stage directions.
What two things do I focus on when writing thinking tracks about a play?
400
Simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration, idioms, etc.
What are examples of figurative langauge often found in poetry?
400
Anything that refers to the title and the position that the author takes
How do I track my thinking when reading a persuasive text?
500
The events that happen in a story.
What is the plot of a fictional text?
500
Important information
What do I focus on as I track an expository text?
What information do I use to summarize an expository text?
500
Acts, scenes
What are the divisions of a drama or play called?
(Often these occur when there is a major change in setting, characters, etc.--always think about why the playwright made the decision to change the act or scene.)
500
A stanza
What is a grouping of lines causing a division in a poem?