Vocabulary
This means part of a story.
What is excerpt?
This is the person telling the story.
Who is the narrator?
This the meaning of nonfiction.
This is how you find the meaning of a word using context clues.
Find substitute words, Read sentences before and after, look at pictures
What is process of elimination?
This is the meaning of reveal.
What is to show?
This is the word that means author's message.
What is theme?
This is another word for central idea.
What is main idea?
This is the type of point of view where the author uses the words "I, me, etc.."
This is what I can do before I read the passage.
What is read the questions first?
This is the meaning of claim.
What is opinion?
This is the word for feeling that the story gives.
What is tone or mood?
These are a few examples of nonfiction text features.
What is title, subtitle, bolded words, etc...?
This is all of the events that make up a story.
What is plot?
This is what I should do after I finish the test.
This is the meaning of affect?
What does it mean to cause change?
This is another way to say to find the similarities and differences.
What is to compare and contrast?
These are the 5 nonfiction text structures.
What is description, sequence, problem and solution, cause and effect, and compare and contrast?
These are some questions I can ask in order to figure out the theme.
What did the character learn? How did the character change?
This is something you can do if you are stuck on a question.
This is the meaning of place and time of a story.
What is the setting?
This is when the author gives you clues before something happens so that the reader knows that it will happen.
What is foreshadowing?
This is the nonfiction text structure that organizes by telling the reader the similarities and differences of a topic/certain topics.
What is compare and contrast?
This is a type of figurative language that an author uses to describe two unlike things using words "like" or "as." Ex) She was as bright as the sun.
What is a simile?
This is something I can say to myself throughout the test.