Literary Texts
This is when a character is talking.
What is dialogue?
A list of words and definitions.
What is the glossary?
A word that means almost the same thing.
What is a synonym?
Poetry is not written in paragraphs. This is what each section of poetry is called.
What is a stanza?
A piece of writing that tells a story. It has characters, settings, and a plot.
What is a narrative?
Name the 3 elements of setting.
What is location- Where the story takes place?
time- When the story takes place?
mood- How does the story make you feel?
A picture that includes labels of certain parts.
What is a diagram?
A word that means the opposite.
What is an antonym?
A few words or part of a sentence.
What is a phrase
This type of writing convinces the reader to do something or to agree with something.
What is persuasive/ opinion writing?
This is the lesson learned, the moral, or the message of the story.
What is theme?
A passage that is explained in order of when the events happened uses this text structure.
What is chronological order/sequencing?
This reference lists synonyms for words. For example you want to find other words that mean "happy." happy: excited, gleeful, joyous
What is a thesaurus?
"I have a million things to do" is an example of this.
What is descriptive language
This type of writing provides facts and explains something.
What is informational or nonfiction writing?
This is a genre that has magic, royalty, and "they lived happily ever after."
What is a fairy tale?
This text structure provides information and details about a topic. Signal words include:
• for example, for instance, to illustrate
What is description?
Title, illustrations, and bold words are some examples of these.
What are text features
This is when something nonhuman has human characteristics.
What is personification
This type of writing is made up, but could happen in real life.
What is realistic fiction?
This is when the character changes their thinking, attitude, or beliefs.
What is the turning point?
The paragraph that usually reemphasizes and summarizes the main idea in an informational passage.
What is the last paragraph or conclusion
This is how the author organizes information in a non-fiction passage.
When you describe something using the words "like" or "as." Ex. - The man was as big as a tree.
What is a simile
These are the 3 sentence starters you need when writing a short response.
What is "My thinking is, I know this because, To add on"