Vocabulary 1
The people or animals in a story.
What are characters?
Tells what the whole passage is about
What is a title?
The reason something happens.
What is cause?
The "usual" meaning of a word.
Ex: Night owl
What is literal?
The general subject of a text
What is Topic?
Where and when the story takes place.
What is a setting?
The pictures in a story
What are illustrations?
What happens as a result of the cause.
What is effect?
The "non usual" meaning of a word.
Ex: "Break a leg"
What is non-literal?
The feeling the story creates in the reader.
What is Mood?
Special qualities or feelings such as courage, pride or honesty
What are traits
Gives more information related to the main article
What is a sidebar?
Retelling the story in your own words
What is recount?
Nearby words, phrases, and sentences that help the reader determine the meaning of the word.
What are context clues?
Facts that supports what a story is mostly about.
What are key details?
Everything that happens in a story, in the order in which it happens.
What is sequence of events?
Show what part of the passage is about
What are headings?
The lesson the author wants to share.
What the reader or character is to learn from the events in the story.
What is central message?
What is moral?
Tells the story from the outside and describe events and actions in the story. They also have a point of view.
What is a narrator?
How two or more things are different
What is contrast?
What the text is mostly about
What is main idea?
Calls attention to an important word that you should pay attention to
What are key words?
The way we think or feel about something. Another word for opinion.
What is point of view?
The parts of the text that help a reader understand the text. (captions, pictures, diagrams, headings, timelines)
What are text features?
How two or more things are alike
What is compare?