this genre type has many categories including realistic fiction, mystery, traditional literature, fantasy, science fiction, and historical fiction
What is fiction?
100
it is when you circle the title, write a prediction sentence, predict author's purpose (PIE), look at the pictures, preview the captions, and predict whether you are reading a narrative or an expository passage
What is Preview?
100
When an author writes to try and make you believe in something they want you to believe in
What is to persuade?
100
The main idea must have supporting ___________ in order to give more information.
What are details?
100
words that are spelled the same and sound the same but have different meanings
fall fall rock rock bow bow
What are multiple meaning words?
200
this genre type includes true information in the form of biographies, autobiographies, and informational texts
What is nonfiction?
200
This is the part of the PRAI strategy process where you actually read the passage
What is Read?
200
Biography, Autobiography, Informational
What is informational?
200
When a test question asks, " Why was Centralia burning underground," it is testing if you know this skill.
What is cause and effect?
200
right write slay sleigh weigh way
What are homophones?
300
This genre type is verse written to create a response of thought and feeling from the reader. It often uses rhythm and rhyme.
What is poetry?
300
in order to focus your reading and get clues about what the passage is going to be about, you should read these first.
What are the questions?
300
when the author writes about fictional characters who encounter some problem to overcome.
What is to entertain?
300
in nonfiction articles, authors include these words to explain more about photos
What are captions?
300
humorous funny under below many countless
What are synonyms?
400
it is another word for fiction
What is narrative?
400
It is when you find text evidence to support your answer choices.
What is proving your anwers?
400
a writer writes, "the best food in San Antonio can abe found on the Riverwalk" in order to ___________ you.
What is persuade you?
400
if an author writes "the clouds turned grey, the wind picked up and rumbling could be heard" but doesn't tell you the main thing happening, the author wants you to use this skill
What is making an inference?
400
extreme plain all nothing silly serious
exit enter
What are antonyms?
500
it is another word for non-fiction
What is expository?
500
When you 'get the gist' you are figuring out the _________ of the paragraph
What is the main idea?
500
This kind of story:
The little girl found a lady bug on the playground and told her friends to walk carefully around it. A boy walked right over the grassy area where the lady bug was, because he didn't hear her warning. The little girl was sad, but hoped the ladybug was ok. When the little boy picked up his shoe, the ladybug spread it's wings and flew up toward a flower. The little girl smiled as she watched it flutter away.
What is entertaining?
500
these type of clues are used to figure out unknown words in sentences. Authors give you __________t _____s in the sentence the word comes in and other sentences above or below the unknown word.
What are context clues?
500
always beautiful ugly never ridiculous pretty awful best worst disgusting
hint: 'feeling' words