Group 1
life lesson or message of a story
Mood or theme
Theme
the speech of characters in a story or drama.
Dialogue or quotations
Dialogue
the events that happen in the beginning, middle, and end.
Dialogue or plot
Plot
the most important idea that the author is trying to say.
Dialogue or main idea
Main idea
a part of speech that describes a noun.
Adjective or pronoun
Adjective
a description of events written or told by someone who was actually there.
Firsthand account or secondhand account
Firsthand account
the perspective from which a story is told.
Tone or point of view
a statement that can be proven.
Fact or opinion
Fact
what a piece of writing is about.
Fact or topic
Topic
periods, colons, exclamation marks, and question marks.
Capitalization or punctuation
words that have opposite meanings.
synonyms or antonyms
Antonyms
Includes metaphors, similes, hyperboles, alliteration, personification, oxymorons, and onomatopoeias.
figurative language or organizational structures
Figurative language
the words, facts, or ideas in a text that help you understand the meaning of an unknown word.
Figurative language or context clues
Context clues
a part of speech that describes a verb, an adjective, or another adverb.
Adverbs or adjectives
Adverbs
the order of events in a narrative.
Sequence or character
Sequence
words that have the same meaning.
Synonyms or antonyms
Synonyms
repeating or writing out exactly what a source said, word for word.
evidence or quotation
Quotation
may include facts, opinions of experts, quotes, statistics, and definitions.
quotation or evidence
Evidence
the instructions that tell actors what to do in a drama.
summary or stage directions
Stage directions
a story, also known as a play, that is written for people to act out.
Narrative or drama
Drama
a piece of writing that uses words and phrases chosen for their sound or meaning.
Poetry or prose
Poetry
a form of writing that uses ordinary language.
Drama or prose
Prose
chronological order, cause and effect, sequential, compare and contrast, and problem and solution
Organizational structures or figures of speech
Organizational structures
allows the reader to experience the way things look, sound, smell, taste, or feel through imagination.
Narrative sequencing or sensory details
Sensory details
Letters added to a root word that change its meaning. Includes prefixes and suffixes.
Affixes or root words
Affixes