Genre
A genre that features magical elements, imaginary creatures, or other worlds.
Fantasy
The way an author organizes information in a passage
Text Structure
The repetition of the same beginning sound in a group of words.
Alliteration
Names a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun
To guess what might happen next based on clues from the text and your own knowledge.
Predict
A genre based on real facts, people, or events.
Nonfiction
A structure where the author trys to identify an issue and suggests one or more ways to solve it.
Problem and Solution
Uses words in creative ways to express ideas or feelings, often not meant to be taken literally.
Figurative Language
Describes a noun or pronoun.
Adjective
Creating pictures in your mind of what’s happening in the text.
Visualizing
A genre that usually involves a crime or puzzle that needs to be solved.
Mystery
This structure shows why something happened and what happened as a result
Cause and Effect
Gives human qualities to non-human things.
Personification
Examples: run, jump, is, were
Verbs
Helps you relate the text to your own life, other books, or the world, which improves understanding.
Making Connections
A genre based on futuristic science or technology.
Science fiction
Clue words you might find in a compare and contrast structure.
Like, unlike, both, however, on the other hand, similar, different.
An exaggeration used for effect.
Hyperbole
Describes a verb, adjective, or another adverb. It often tells how, when, or where.
Adverb
Reading a section again to better understand it, especially if it was confusing the first time.
Reread
A category or type of book that shares similar style, form, or content.
Genre
Five types of text structure.
Description, Sequence/Chronological, Compare and Contrast, Cause and Effect, and Problem and Solution.
It’s raining cats and dogs.
Idiom
Takes the place of a noun. He, she, it, they
Pronoun
Three types of connections readers can make.
Text-to-Self, Text-to-Text, and Text-to-World