Literary Elements
Informational Text
Text Structure
Reading Strategies
Other Reading Skills
100

What are the people or animals in the story called?

What are characters?

100

What informational text features uses visuals such as diagrams, graphs, maps, charts, or illustrations to explain ideas?

What are graphic features?

100

What text structure uses how things are alike and how they are different?

What is compare and contrast?

100

What reading strategy helps you use your senses to create pictures in your mind as you read?

What is visualize?

100

What reading skills tells "Who is telling the story?"

What is point of view?

200

What is the conflict the characters face called?

What is problem?

200

What reading skills helps the reader determine the meaning of unknown words by providing clues in the text?

What is context clues?

200

What text structure tells about a conflict and how it is resolved?

What is problem and solution?

200

What is the name of the reading strategy when you think about text to self, text to text, or text to the world?


What is making connections?

200

What compares two things using the words "like" or "as"?

What is a simile?

300

What literary element tells you where and when a story takes place?

What is setting?

300

What text feature provides a visual representation that includes labels to identify the parts?

What are diagrams?

300

What text structure provides details about a topic?

What is description?

300

What reading strategy is a guess about what is going to happen in the selection or story?

What is making predictions?

300

What type of text includes a cast of characters, scenes, dialogue, and stage directions?

What is elements of drama?

400

Where do events in the story take place?

What is in the middle?
400

What text feature tells you what the text or section is mostly about?

What is title, heading, or subheading?

400

What text structure explains events in order?

What is sequence?

400

What name of the strategy where you retell the story in your own words?

What is summarize?

400

What type of text uses rhyming words, rhythm, imagery, alliteration, onomatopoeia, and repetition?

What is elements of poetry?

500

What is how the conflict or problem is solved called?

What is solution?

500

What reading skill tells what the text is mostly about, main idea?

What is central idea?

500

What text structure explains what happened and why it happened?

What is cause and effect?

500

Which reading strategy do you use when you don't understand what you have read?

What is monitor and clarify?

500

What gives human qualities or characteristics to an animal or object?

What is personification?