Standards Vocabulary Definitions
Text Structures
Fiction
Strategies Good Readers Use
Poetry
100
A type of text you are reading. Categories can include realistic fiction, poetry, science fiction, informational, etc.
What is genre?
100
This structure explains events or steps in an order to tell how something is done or how something happens. Uses words such as first, second, last, then, etc.
What is sequential order or sequence of events?
100
A person, animal, or figure in a story that encounters a problem and solution.
What is a character?
100
Good readers identify this in a text that explains what the text is mostly about, or the author's most important point.
What is identifying the main idea?
100
This looks like a sentence in a poem.
What is a line?
200
The 'proof' in a text that supports the author's points.
What is evidence?
200
This structure explains how something happened and what happened. It uses words such as since, because, therefore, if, then, etc.
What is cause and effect?
200
The elements of a story that describes the beginning, middle, and end (introduction, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution).
What is plot?
200
Good readers use these clues to use in order to determine what an unknown word means.
What are context clues?
200
This looks like a paragraph in a poem.
What is a stanza?
300
To locate or find information or details in a text.
What is identify?
300
This structure explains how two or more things are alike and/or how they are different. It uses words/phrases such as similar, alike, on the other hand, the difference, etc.)
What is compare and contrast?
300
The hidden message or lesson in a story; often has to be inferred.
What is theme?
300
Good readers use this strategy to explain only the important points of the text, or to give the short version of a text (example: somebody-wanted-but-so-then, 5 W's).
What is summarizing?
300
This type of language compares 2 or more things using the words like or as.
What is a simile?
400
To tell, show, or explain something.
What is describe?
400
This structure tells about something that is wrong, and then gives the answer(s) to solve it. It uses phrases such as the question is, an answer could be, to solve this, etc.
What is problem and solution?
400
The highest or turning point of the story where the solution begins to take place.
What is the climax?
400
Good readers use this strategy of making a movie or forming pictures in their head as they read.
What is visualizing?
400
This type of language compares 2 or more things WITHOUT using the words like or as.
What is a metaphor?
500
To break apart text in order to look at it more closely.
What is analyze?
500
This text structure describes a topic, idea, person, place, or thing by listing its features or examples.
What is descriptive?
500
The struggle or main problem between the main character and something else in a story (character v/s character, character v/s nature, character v/s themself, etc.)
What is conflict?
500
Good readers use this strategy of making a prediction or correct guess using what the text says and what you already know (prior knowledge)?
What is inferring or making inferences?
500
The definition that best matches the underlined mutliple-meaning word is:
A. to telephone someone; B. to speak loudly or shout; C. to visit someone; D. to give someone a name
What is B. - to speak loudly or shout