Comprehension
Vocabulary
Name That Story
Text Features
It's a Surprise!
100

Answers the question who?  The main person or animal in the story.

What is the character?
100

A word that means the same as another word.  Ex. smart and intelligent

What is a synonym?

100

A girl gets invited to a Birthday party but can only go if she bring her little sister with her.

What is The Big Red Lollipop?

100

It describes the photograph in the story

What is the Caption?

100

A person place or thing 

What is a noun?

200

Where and when the Story takes place is called this.

What is the setting?

200

When you use clues around a word to figure out its meaning.

What are context clues?

200
An old man cannot sleep, after eating too much so he takes his cat for a walk under the Stars. 

Mr.  Putter and Tabby See the Stars.

200

Gives a hint of what the next section or paragraph will be about. It usually is in a different color print.

What is the Heading?

200

What holiday did a character celebrate in both America and in China?

Happy New Year!

300

The important thing that happens in the story.  Starts with an E.

What is an event?

300

A word that has more than one meaning. ex- Wave

What is a multiple Meaning Word?

300

This expository story was about a little furry animal that protects his home that is underground in a burrow. 

Prairie Dogs

300

a text feature that tells you the date and important events of a person's life.

What is a Timeline?

300

What type of story am I going to read if I want to find facts and real pictures of a topic?

What is expository?

400
When you are finding things that are the same and things that are different.  You can make a Venn Diagram to do this.

What is comparing and Contrasting.

400

A word that means the opposite of another word.

What is an antonym?

400

The story about a goddess who was sick of the fighting between vendors.  She regretted her wish to be part of the sky. 

What was "The Starry Asters"?

400

a picture that includes labels to show the different parts of the picture.  

What is a Diagram?

400

A story that sounds like it is real but the characters and events are made up. 

What is a realistic fiction?

500

When you find proof in the story when you answer a question and you underline it.  This is called finding the text _________.

What is Evidence?

500

A word that sounds the same as another word but is spelled differently?

What is a homophone?

500

A story about a man who loved books so much.  He traveled long distances on his donkey to share stories with children.

What is Biblioburro?

500

Darker writing that points out the important words of vocabulary from the story.

What is Bold Print?

500

What type of reading has a beat, uses senses, and may or may not have rhyming.

What is poetry?