Vocabulary
Central, unifying element
What is Central Idea?
To look back at an event that happened in the past
What does Flashback mean?
"I want to go to the park," said Colton.
What is a direct quotation?
The person telling the story; not the main character
Who is the Narrator?
The people or animals that act out the story.
Who are the characters?
To make judgment
What is Conclusion Drawn?
The conventional ways in which words or phrases are used, spoke, or written in a speech community
What is Grammar Usage?
To form by putting together parts of information when reading a passage
What is construct?
The main events of a story prevented in interrelated sequence
What is Plot?
The time and the place of the story.
What is the setting?
A serious disagreement or argument
What does Conflict mean?
To draw a conclusion;
Make an educated guess based on what you already know
What does it mean to Infer/Inferences?
The last part of a reading passage; a final opinion formed after reading a passage
What is conclude?
The goal or aim of the piece
What is the Purpose of Writing
(Informative, Opinion, Narrative Writing)?
The person who writes the story and the person who draws the pictures for the story.
What is the author and the illustrator?
To persuade someone to do something
What does Convince mean?
Writing before you start writing
What is Prewriting?
Identify similarities between two or more things in order to understand how they are similar to each other
What is compare?
the most important idea in a reading passage supported with details
What is Main Idea?
The creation and development of the people in the story
What is characterization?
To add on
What does Elaborate/Elaboration mean?
An account given of a particular matter
What does Report mean?
To help us add details from a text using the exact words from the text
the way parts of a passage or text are organized; how events follow one another
Sequence
The message that is in the story or what the story is about.
What is the theme?