When a story tells the events in the order of when they occured starting with the oldest event.
What is chronological order?
100
This is the main idea of a story that involves how and what the characters do.
What is the plot?
100
The author gives you clues about what is going to happen.
What is foreshadowing?
100
The first sentence in a paragraph that explains what the paragraph will be about.
What is the main idea?
100
These are two words that have the same, or almost the same, meaning.
What is a synonym?
200
Advertisements try to convince you that if you buy their product, you will be the best or fastest or most popular. This is an example of what kind of text?
What is persuasive text?
200
A comparison that uses the words as or like.
A good book is like a good meal.
What is a simile?
200
What is it called when characters are talking in a story.
What is dialogue?
200
The middle of a paragraph (or story) gives the reader this to support the main idea?
What are the supporting details?
200
These are two words that have the opposite meanings?
What is an antonym?
300
In the front of a text book, the author places the chapters of the book using this.
What is the index?
300
A comparison that uses the word "is" without like or as.
A railway is a road for trains.
What is a metaphor?
300
A story that uses actual historical events to tell a fictional story.
What is historical fiction?
300
A reader uses this when he or she makes decisions about the story based on what was read.
It was dark, the stars were shining overhead, she heard an owl, hooting in the distance. (It was night time)
What is an inference.
300
A word like ball can mean a spherical object or a dance. This is an example of what?
What is a homophone?
400
Autobiographies, Biographies and textbooks are examples of this kind of literature.
What is informational text?
400
Sometimes an author uses sound effects in his story, like the sounds a car makes when it is starting. This is called what?
What is onomatopoeia?
400
The type of genre where an author tells you the story of his or her own life?
What is an autobiography?
400
This happens when an author describes the difference between two things. (the opposite of a comparison )
What is contrast?
400
When you read something and you are not sure about a word, you can read before and after the passage to figure out what it means. This is called using what?
What is context clues?
500
This type of text is used to find information about subjects that you are interested in learning more about.
What is an encyclopedia?
500
When an author gives human traits and characteristics to nonliving things.
The dustdevils called to each other to dance.
What is personification?
500
A story of this genre is usually passed down orally from one generation to the next.
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in Your Ear was an example.
What is a folktale?
500
These are found often in informational text. They tell the reader what they will find in the passage that follows.
You find these in text books and at the beginning of articles in your Weekly Readers.
What is a headline?
500
This is added to the beginning of a base word to change the meaning.
happy to "un"happy