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These are the four thinking jobs for fiction.
What are characters, problem, solution, and lesson learned?
These are the thinking jobs for non-fiction.
What are teach and point-of-view?
These are the thinking jobs for poetry.
What are literal meaning and deeper meaning?
This point of view would be found in a text that uses lots of words like "I," "my," "we," and "our."
What is first person point of view?
This is what you should do before reading each new passage on the End of Grade test.
What is jot genre and thinking jobs?
This is when and where a story takes place.
What is setting?
This is the author's perspective on a subject they are writing about.
What is the author's Point of View?
"The robber was as sly as a fox" is an example of this type of figurative language device.
What is simile?
"Whistle, pow, and rumble" are all examples of this type of figurative language device.
What onomatopoeia?
This is what you should do if you get stuck on a hard question on the test.
What is pick an answer choice, bookmark it, and come back to it later?
These are the people or animals who carry out the action in a story.
Who are characters?
This is the main point an author is trying to make in a non-fiction text.
What is the central or main idea?
"The classroom is a furnace" is an example of this figurative language device.
What is metaphor?
This is a strategy for deciphering word meaning in a passage.
What is context clues, breaking down the word, or finding a synonym?
This is something you should do after reading the passage, but before answering the questions.
What is writing your Main Idea?
The events in the story.
What is plot?
A summary of a non-fiction text should only include these types of details from the text.
What are the most important details?
"My computer hates me" is an example of this type of figurative language device.
What is personification?
This can be conveyed through an author's choice of words in a text, and reveals how the author feels about a topic or character he or she is writing about.
What is tone?
This is the most important part when answering/checking over your answers.
What is making sure your own idea/text evidence matches your answer?
Looking at how the conflict in a text is resolved and the lessons the characters learn from this resolution will often lead you to this.
What is the lesson learned or theme?
These are the 4 main purposes author's have when they create fiction and non-fiction texts. (You must name at least 3 of these).
What is to entertain, to inform, to explain/instruct, or to persuade?
"The three things were thoroughly thriving" is an example of this type of figurative language device.
What is alliteration?
"To my dog, our neighborhood park is the Garden of Eden" is an example of this type of figurative language device.
What is allusion?