fiction
nonfiction
poetry
reading
vocabulary
100
people, animals, and creatures that carry out the action of the story
What are characters?
100
true, authentic, actual
What is real?
100
written in lines and stanzas
What is format?
100
meaning from text around unknown words
What are context clues?
100
this tool gives pronunciation, spelling, and the meaning of a word
What is dictionary?
200
the time and place in a story
What is setting?
200
short essay on a specific topic
What is an article?
200
pattern of words with the same sound usually at the end of the line
What is rhyme?
200
the term used to tell what all the sentences in a paragraph are about
What is main idea?
200
words with similar meanings
What is a synonym?
300
the series of events in a story
What is plot?
300
a true statement--not an opinion
What is a fact?
300
comparison using like or as to show similarity between two things
What is simile?
300
to tell what the reading was about in one or two sentences
What is a summary?
300
words that tell opposite meanings like hot and cold
What is an antonym?
400
The rising action ends in the turning point of the story
What is the climax?
400
electronic used to find information for research
What is search engine?
400
The train was a silver bullet is a____
What is metaphor?
400
to draw a conclusion based on the evidence in the reading
What is inference?
400
this reference book gives synonyms and sometimes antonyms for a word
What is thesaurus?
500
the ending or unraveling of the story called
What is the falling action?
500
title of references used in a research report
What is works cited?
500
The lily bowed her head and was thankful for the rain is an example of..
What is personification?
500
repeating an idea using your own wording
What is paraphrasing?
500
words with similar sounds or spellings but different meanings, like weak and week
What is homonym?