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Can be told from the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd person.
What is point of view?
100
Can be to persuade, inform, or entertain.
What is an author’s purpose?
100
Uses transition words such as: first, next, before, after.
What is sequencing?
100
The lesson or moral of the story.
What is a theme?
100
The place or time that a story takes place.
What is a setting?
200
Big idea, what a story is mostly about
What is main idea?
200
Retelling a story in your own words.
What is a summary?
200
Going back in a story to find details.
What is rereading?
200
Figurative language that is used to compare two or more things.
What are similes and metaphors?
200
Uses the key words such as: because, since, as a result, so, if, then.
What is cause and effect?
300
The perspective from which a piece of text is written.
What is point of view?
300
The feelings that an author has towards the topic they are writing about.
What is an author’s point of view?
300
Information that can be proven versus someone’s personal opinion.
What is fact and opinion?
300
Explains why something happens and what happens as a result.
What is cause and effect?
300
The reason why the author writes a specific piece of text.
What is an author’s purpose?
400
Putting events in chronological order in which they occurred.
What is sequencing?
400
The adjectives that describe a character’s personality.
What are character traits?
400
Elements found in informational text that help the reader better understand the information...”the fancy stuff”.
What are text features?
400
The way an author organizes information in a nonfiction text.
What is a text structure?
400
Clues that help you determine the meaning of unknown words.
What are context clues?
500
Finding similarities and differences between two ideas, characters, or topics.
What is compare & contrast?
500
The parts that make up a story.
What are story elements?
500
Using what you know and evidence from the text to “read between the lines”.
What is inferencing?
500
The message that the author wants you to take away from the story.
What is theme?
500
Table of contents, pictures, captions, headings, indexes, and glossaries are all examples of this thing.
What are text features?