Purple Bananas
What is a glossary
A list at the back of the book that defines important words from the text.
What is the setting?
Where and when a story takes place.
What is a diagram
A labeled picture that shows how something works or is put together.
What is something that is A visual way to show information (like a graph or table).
Chart
what is description?
Gives details about something to help you picture it.
What is an Index
A list at the back of a book that tells you where to find topics by page number.
What is a Summary?
A short retelling of the most important parts of a story.
What is an illustration
A picture or drawing that helps you understand the story.
cause and effect
Shows why something happened and what happened as a result.
What is Sequence
Tells events in the order they happen. (First, next, then, last.)
A made-up story.
Fiction
what does to Infer mean?
To figure out something using clues and what you already know.
Predict
To guess what will happen next.
what is evidence?
Proof from the text that supports your answer.
Problem and solution
Shows a problem and how it is fixed.
Parts of a nonfiction text like headings, captions, bold words.
Text features
Describe detail
A small piece of information that supports the main idea.
What is Point of view?
Who is telling the story (first person = "I", third person = "he/she/they").
What is Authors Purpose? And what are the three purposes?
Why the author wrote the text (to inform, entertain, or persuade).
What is the first thing you should do when you start the reading EOG AND every time you get to a new reading passage?
Read the questions first so that you know what you are looking for. This SAVES TIME and makes you a purposeful reader! Be intentional!
The title of a section in a nonfiction text.
Heading
What is the main idea?
What the story or paragraph is mostly about.
What does Contrast mean?
Contrast means saying how two things are different. If I am contrasting my cat and dog I would say that my cat is good at climbing trees but in contrast my dog is good at swimming. My cat has white fur which contrast my dog who has black fur.
CONtrast, Con means against. "CONTEST", "Contemplate"
What does Compare mean?
comparing two things means telling how they are alike. For example if I am comparing my cat and my dog I could say they both are furry, they both have 4 legs, they both have spots.
What kind of story is A true story or text with facts.
Non Fiction!