Best Selling Literature
This classic features a grumpy green character who tries to stop Christmas from coming.
What is How the Grinch Stole Christmas!?
This kind of book tells a made-up story with characters and a problem to solve.
What is Fiction?
This skill helps you figure out what a word means by using the words and sentences around it.
What are context clues?
This magical series follows a young wizard named Harry and was written by J.K. Rowling.
What is Harry Potter?
A _________ is a piece of writing in which the words are chosen for their beauty and sound and are carefully arranged.
What is a Poem?
When you tell the most important parts of a story in order, without giving every small detail, you are doing this.
What is summarizing?
This hungry caterpillar eats lots of food during the week before turning into a butterfly.
What is The Very Hungry Caterpillar?
This type of book gives real facts and teaches you about animals, space, or history.
What is nonfiction?
This is the lesson or message the author wants you to learn from the story.
What is the theme?
In this silly story, a pigeon keeps asking to drive a bus — but the reader gets to decide!
What is Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!?
These stories often have talking animals and teach a lesson at the end.
What are fables?
When you use clues from the text plus what you already know to figure something out that the author does not directly say, you are making this.
What is an inference?
This story is about a little girl who wears a red cape and is going through the woods to visit her grandmother.
What are Little Red Riding Hood?
A book about written by an author, about another individual.
What is a Biography?
These are words like because, however, first, finally that help connect ideas in a text.
Answer: What are transition words? (or signal words)