Literary Text Skills
This element of a story's plot introduces the setting, characters, and conflict.
Exposition
This is what the text is mostly about.
Main Idea
This chart with two circles helps compare two things.
Venn Diagram
A sentence must have these two parts: a person or thing doing something, and what they do. What are these two parts called?
Subject and Verb
This is when an object or animal acts like a person.
Personification
This tells us what a character is like by showing what they do and say.
Characterization
These are facts or examples that help explain the main idea.
Details
This tool helps put events in the right order.
Timeline/Sequential
These words describe a person, place, or thing.
Adjectives
This compares two things using ‘like’ or ‘as.’
Simile
This is the problem in the story.
Conflict
Titles, pictures, and bold words are examples of these.
Text Features
This chart shows a problem and different ways to fix it.
Problem and Solution
This part of speech describes how an action occurred.
Adverb
This compares two things without using ‘like’ or ‘as.'
Metaphor
This is the lesson or message the story teaches.
Theme
This text structure explains why something happens and what happens next.
Cause & Effect
This organizer has a main idea in the middle with supporting ideas around it.
Mind Map/Concept Map/Spider Map/Essay Plan
This kind of sentence has one main idea and one extra part that depends on it.
Complex Sentence
This is when something is exaggerated to be funny or dramatic.
Hyperbole
This type of conflict is when a character struggles with their own thoughts or feelings.
Internal Conflict
This type of writing tells how two things are alike and different.
Compare & Contrast
This chart helps keep track of how characters change in a story.
Character Map/Character Sheet
To show something belongs to one person, you add this mark.
Apostrophe
This is when multiple words start with the same sound and follow one another.
Alliteration