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What the story is mostly about
Main Idea/Central Idea
The life lesson of a story or the author's message.
Theme
The order in which things happen.
Sequence of Events
Using information in the text and prior knowledge to make meaning out of what is stated.
Draw Conclusions
Writing based on facts and real events.
Nonfiction
A word or phrase that supports the main idea and helps us answer a question.
Key Details
Hints the author gives to help you define a difficult term.
Context Clues
Someone's feelings, thoughts, or emotions on a topic.
Opinion
How the information in the text is organized (cause and effect, sequence of events, compare and contrast, problem and solution)
Text Structure
Giving animal or objects human like actions and qualities.
Personification
Finding the similarities between two things
compare
A conversation between two or more people.
Dialogue
A type of writing when you are talking someone into doing something using reasons.
Persuasive
The main events that happen in a story.
Making a comparison using like or as
Example: Strong as an ox
Simile
Finding the difference between two things.
contrast
The narrators position in relation to the story being told.
Point of View
Using prior knowledge and text clues to come up with a conclusion.
Inferencing
Additional parts of nonfiction texts that help you better understand what is written (heading, picture, image, diagram, caption)
Text Features
Making a comparison not using like or as
Example: The snow is a white blanket.
Metaphor
Where and when the story takes place.
Setting
The reason an author is writing something (either to persuade, inform, or entertain)
Author's Purpose
Say or estimate what will happen in the future by using text evidence.
Predicting
Stories that describe made up events and people.
Fiction
An expression that means something different than it's literal meaning.
Example: It's raining cats and dogs
Idiom