Fiction
The lesson or message the author wants the reader to learn from a story.
What is Theme?
These help organize a text and tell the reader what a specific section is about.
What are Headings?
Words that have the same or nearly the same meaning.
What are Synonyms?
This punctuation mark is used to show someone is speaking.
What are Quotation Marks?
When you find proof in the text to support your answer, you are using this.
What is Evidence?
The perspective from which a story is told, such as first-person or third-person.
What is Point of View?)
The most important point the author is making about a topic.
What is the Main Idea?
Hints found within a sentence that help you figure out the meaning of an unknown word.
What are Context Clues?
A word that takes the place of a noun, such as "he," "she," or "it."
What is a Pronoun?
To give a brief statement of the main points of a story or article.
What is to Summarize?
A comparison of two things using the words "like" or "as."
What is a Simile?
This text structure explains why something happened and what the result was.
What is Cause and Effect?)
The "base" of a word that contains its core meaning.
What is a Root Word?
The part of the sentence that tells who or what the sentence is about.
What is the Subject?
To use what you know and what the text says to make a "logical guess."
What is to Infer?
This part of the plot occurs after the trouble gets worse and leads toward the resolution.
What is Character Change?
Information found under a picture that explains what is happening in the image.
What is a Caption?
An affix added to the beginning of a word to change its meaning.
What is a Prefix?
A word that describes a verb, often ending in "-ly."
What is an Adverb?
There are the three types of evidence you can use to build a paragraph.
What are quotes, micro-story and parallel lists?
When an author gives human qualities to non-human objects.
What is Personification?
A type of nonfiction text that tells the story of a person's life written by that person.
What is an Autobiography?
A phrase that means something different from the literal meaning of its individual words (e.g., "It's raining cats and dogs").
What is an Idiom?
These are used to separate items in a list.
What are Commas?
The "why" behind an author's writing (Persuade, Inform, Entertain).
What is Author’s Purpose?