Literary Texts
Informational Texts
Vocabulary
Figuartive Language & Poetry
Writing
100
The location and time in which a story takes place.
What is the setting?
100
A list of words and definitions.
What is the dictionary?
100
A word that means almost the same thing.
What is a synonym?
100
"The tiny white flowers dotted the morning mountainside like patches of snow" is an example of this.
What is a simile?
100
A piece of writing that tells a story. It has characters, settings, and a plot.
What is a narrative?
200
This is when a character is talking.
What is dialogue?
200
A picture that includes labels of certain parts.
What is a diagram?
200
A word that means the opposite.
What is an antonym?
200
"The stars were candles guiding the weary travelers" is an example of this.
What is a metaphor?
200
This type of writing states what the writer thinks about a topic.
What is opinion writing?
300
This is the list of people in a play.
What is the cast of characters?
300
A passage that is explained in order of when the events happened uses this text structure.
What is chronological order?
300
This reference lists synonyms for words.
What is a thesaurus?
300
"He walked on cat's feet" is an example of this.
What is a metaphor?
300
This type of writing provides facts and explains something.
What is informational or nonfiction writing?
400
This is the author's message, central message, or lesson.
What is the theme?
400
This text structure demonstrates how one event makes another one happen.
What is a cause and effect?
400
When this is added to the beginning of a root word, it makes a new word and changes the meaning of the word.
What is a prefix?
400
Similes use "like" or "as."
How are similes different from  metaphors?
400
These symbols are placed around words pulled directly from the text.
What are quotation marks?
500
This is a description of who is telling the story and it affects how the story is told.
What is point of view?
500
The last paragraph, which usually reemphasizes and summarizes the main idea in an informational passage.
What is the  conclusion?
500
Words that sound the same but have different spellings and different meanings.
What are homophones?
500
He is a pig is an example of this.
What is metaphor?
500
"Because she broke her arm" is an example of this.
What is a sentence fragment or incomplete sentence?