Genres
This type of genre includes make believe characteristics such as magic and animals that can talk.
What is fantasy?
The person the story is mainly about.
What is character?
Creating a picture in your head of what you are reading.
What is Visualizing?
Things that can be proven true in a text.
What is a fact?
A story originating in popular culture usually passed down by word of mouth.
What is a folktale?
This type of genre is when a story is written about a person's life.
What is biography?
The time and place that a story takes place.
What is the setting?
Using all the words around a word you might not know to help determine the meaning of the unknown word.
What are Context Clues?
Other names for Informational Text.
What are Expository Text and Non-Fiction?
A story about long ago that uses magic, good and evil, and has things that happen in threes.
What is a fairy tale?
This genre focuses on imagined future scientific or technological advances or changes.
What is Science Fiction?
The events that happen in a story.
What is plot?
Using statements that can be proven true, and statements that are based on personal belief and feeling to understand a text.
What are Fact and Opinion?
Found at the beginning of a text, and containing a list of chapters, or sections of the text.
What is Table of Contents?
A short story, involving animals, that conveys a message, or moral, to the reader.
What is a fable?
This type of genre is a suspenseful story about a puzzling event that is not solved until the end.
What is a Mystery?
The way the story is told, or, whose perspective the story is told from.
What is Point of View?
Understanding what the text is mostly about, and using supporting details to support it.
What is Main Idea?
A type of image along with a text describing the image.
What is photo and caption?
A traditional story, especially one about the early history of people, usually involving mythical creatures.
What is a myth?
This genre is a fictional story that take place in a particular time period. The setting can be based on real events from the past but the characters are made up.
What is Realistic Fiction?
Using schema (personal knowledge) and what is read in the text to determine what is not specifically stated in the text.
What is inferencing?
Making Text-to-Self, Text-to-Text, and Text-to-World relationships while reading a book or story.
What is Making Connections?
Located at the back of the book and containing words and definitions that are found throughout the text.
What is a Glossary?
A literary text that contains stanzas, rhythm, and rhyme.
What is a poem?