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Genre
Language
Parts of a Story
Comprehension
100
A book of facts about various topics organized by year.
What is an almanac?
100
Stories that include characters and event that could happen.
What is realistic fiction?
100
Imagining things in your mind. This can help you infer the meaning of a story.
What is imagery?
100
The name of a book, poem, picture, song, etc.
What is a title?
100
Briefly tell the main idea of the passage.
What is summarize?
200
Books of facts about various topics in ABC order.
What are encyclopedias?
200
A short fictional story (tale) that teachers a lesson. Animals are frequently characters.
What is a fable?
200
A way of describing something by calling it something else. Example: The princess is a shining star.
What is a metaphor?
200
The way a character acts, a character's personality; NOT how a character looks; Example: friendly, greedy, unkind.
What are character traits?
200
Putting information into your own words.
What is paraphrase?
300
Books that list what words mean and how to spell them.
What is a dictionary?
300
A fictional story that has make-believe characters and events that could not happen in real life. It contains talking animals or magic powers.
What is fantasy?
300
Words that imitate their meanings by sounds that they make. Example: buzz, bang, hiss, plop, boom
What is onomatopoeia?
300
The sequence of events that make up a story.
What is plot?
300
Usually the first sentence in a paragraph that tells the main idea.
What is a topic sentence?
400
A book that lists synonyms and antonyms.
What is a thesaurus?
400
Stories that happen at a particular time in the past. The setting is usually real, but the characters are made up.
What is historical fiction?
400
When characters in the story talk; conversation; usually has quotation marks.
What is dialogue?
400
Time and place of the story.
What is setting?
400
Identify parts of the text that tell about the main idea.
What are supporting details?
500
A page at the beginning of a book that lists the chapters and their page numbers.
What is a table of contents?
500
A story that is passed on by word of mouth.
What is a folktale?
500
A comparison using like or as. Example: He ran as fast as a tiger! Her eyes are blue like the ocean.
What is a simile?
500
The lesson a story teaches.
What is moral?
500
The order in which events happen in the story.
What is sequence?