WHO is in the story
What is a Character?
Told from a character in the story using pronouns I, We, or Me
What is 1st person point of view?
What the story is mostly about
What is central idea?
A word that mimics the sound it represents
Example: "The bird's loud CHIRP CHIRP CHIRP woke me up this morning"
What is an onomatopoeia?
Information such as graphs, maps, and photographs that is included in a text to support ideas or topics
What is a text feature?
A word or phrase that someone may not know the meaning of
Text that uses repeating word sounds, rhythm, and imagery to tell a story
What is a poem?
Where or when the story takes place
What is the setting?
Told from a narrator who is not in the story using pronouns he, she, it, or they
What is third person point of view?
Evidence or quotes from a text that support the main idea the author shares
What are relevant details?
Used to compare two unlike things
Example: "The dog swam like a fish in the ocean"
What is a simile?
What is a metaphor?
A text feature that is featured under a photograph, graph, or diagram that explains what the image is about
What is a caption?
Details around a word not known to the reader that help them determine the meaning of the word
What are context clues?
True or False: All poems must rhyme.
False.
What happens throughout the story from beginning, middle, and end
What are events?
The writer of a story or informational text
The way a writer sets up a text in order to share information (time order, problem and solution, etc.)
What is text structure?
Details that "paint a picture" or allows the reader to use their 5 senses to understand a story
Example: "The big, brown horse galloped through the green field surrounded by purple flowers"
What is imagery?
A text feature that shows details such as geography, weather, population, important locations, etc.
What is a map?
Explanation of what is happening in a photograph, diagram, or illustration
What is a caption?
A person who writes poetry
What is a poet?
The lesson or message the author wants the reader to understand
What is the theme of a story?
Retelling a story or text in your own words
What is summarizing?
Type of text that details an event that happens because of another event
What is cause and effect?
Gives an item or object that is not “alive” human-like qualities
Example: "The wind whistled in the trees"
What is personification?
A letter written to a family member during a war is considered this type of source
What is a primary source?
A sentence or phrase that describes what a word actually means
What is a definition?
A type of poem that has repeating sounds at the end of each line
What is a rhyming poem or rhyme?
What the story is about
What is the plot?
A writer's reason for sharing a story (to persuade, give information, or to entertain the reader)
What is Author's Purpose?
Text that states an issue that needs or is solved by the end of the article
What is problem and solution?
A phrase or statement that has the same letter or sound repeating over and over
Example: “Proper penguins parade past people proudly”
What is an alliteration?
A text feature that explains what something is or how it works - Example: A ________ of a butterfly's life cycle shows how a caterpillar becomes a butterfly.
Example 2: A Venn _________ compares how a two topics or ideas are the same or different.
What is a diagram?
What a person already knows about a topic that helps them determine the meaning of an unknown word
What is background information?
A poem that does not have any type of rhyme scheme
What is a free-verse poem?
The problem or struggle in the story
What is conflict?
How the writer feels about a topic or event (for/against a topic or idea, attitude, or opinion)
What is author's perspective?
Type of text that finds similarities and differences between two topics or events
What is compare and contrast?
A saying that is exaggerated to make a point
Example: I'm so hungry, I could eat an elephant!
What is a hyperbole?
Underlining, circling, highlighting, and marking important details are all examples of:
What is annotating?
A word that is the opposite of another word
Example: Bad vs. Good
What is an antonym?
Each sentence in a poem is called a
What is a line?
How the problem is solved in the story
What is the Resolution?
The statement or point the writer is trying to make to prove or convince that something is true (author uses reasons, evidence, and data to back up their ideas)
What is an author's claim?
Type of text that uses timelines and dates in order to share information
What is chronological/time order?
A saying that has a different meaning than what it actually says
Example: “This homework is a piece of cake” = This homework is easy, not actual cake!
What is an idiom?
Letters, journals, interviews, and autobiographies are all example of _________ sources.
Hint: Remember, this type of source means the person was there when it happened or created the source themselves.
What is a primary source?
A word that can have more than one meaning
Example: Ring - sound on a telephone or Ring - a piece of jewelry on your finger
What is a multiple-meaning word?
Instead of being written in paragraphs, poems are frequently written in what format?
What is a stanza?