Nonfiction
Fiction
Poetry
SCR/ECR
Crossword Puzzle Verbs
100

I ask who or what the text is mainly about and what the most important thing is about the who or what.

What are key ideas.

100

This refers to the perspective from which the story is told, whether first-person, second person, or third-person.

What is point of view?

100

The ordered pattern of rhymes at the end of the lines of a poem.

What is a rhyme scheme?
100

A multi-paragraph composition that clearly responds to a prompt.

What is an extended constructed response or ECR?

100

To locate or find something; to point it out. 

What is identify?
200

What the whole text is mainly about.

What is the central idea?

200

Person vs. person; person vs. self; person vs. society; person vs. nature. 

What is conflict?

200

The feeling a poem brings forth in the reader.

What is mood?

200

Answers the question in a prompt.

What is the claim?

200

To reach a decision or opinion about something.

What is conclude?

300

This includes the information, facts, examples, details, expert opinions, or personal observations the author uses to support the central idea or claim.

What is text evidence? 

300

The series of events that take place in a story.

What is the plot?

300

What poems are written in.

What are stanza's?

300

Details from the text that support the claim or answer to the question. 

What is evidence?

300

To prove; to show that something is right. 

What is justify?

400

The way the author organizes the ideas in a text. It is also called the organizational pattern.

What is text structure?

400

The lesson you learn from a story. It is the message the author wants to share with you.

What is theme?

400

When the author uses language in a way that is not meant to be taken literally. The language has a deeper meaning.

What is figurative language?

400

Putting text evidence in your own words.

What is paraphrasing? OR  What is reasoning?

400

To point out or show.

What is indicate?

500

Bold words, words in italic, graphs, charts, headings, subheadings, photographs, captions, illustrations, sidebars, etc. 

What are text features?

500

What I think is happening in the passage, even if I have not read those exact details.

What is an inference?

500

Descriptive language that appeals to the senses. It helps create images in the mind of the reader.

What is imagery?

500

The score you get if you do not answer the question. 

What is a zero?

500

To cause someone to think about something?

What is suggest?