ELA Skills
The message or lesson of a story
THEME
NOUN
can be in 1st or 3rd person
POINT OF VIEW (POV)
Purpose is to inform; non-fiction
INFORMATIONAL TEXT
what the story or paragraph is mostly about
MAIN IDEA
an action
VERB
this replaces a noun; example: he, she, him, it, his, hers
PRONOUN
POETRY
The events that occur in a story
PLOT
describes a verb
ADVERB
comparing 2 things using the words "like" or "as"
SIMILE
Characters are made up but events and setting could be real; characters act like real people
REALISTIC FICTION
Used in Informational Text to help you find information easier
TEXT FEATURES
describes a noun
ADJECTIVE
Used to express strong emotion; examples: Hey! Oh no! Yeah! Wow!
INTERJECTION
A made up story that happened during a real time in the past
HISTORICAL FICTION
The way an author organizes a text in order to make it easier to understand
TEXT STRUCTURE
used to combine sentences; examples: but, or, and, so
CONJUNCTION
used in a sentence to show HOW, WHEN, or WHERE something happened
PREPOSITION
A story written about someone's life by another person
BIOGRAPHY