a drawing that shows or explains something. Usually includes labels and captions
What is a diagram
100
The reason an author has for writing.
What is Authors Purpose
100
She was a pearl in a sea of dead fish.
What is metaphor
100
a type of writing based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact.
What is fiction
200
Where and When a story takes place
What is setting
200
Small text found near a picture that provides important information about the picture
What is captions
200
Clues in the text that help the reader determine or figure out the meaning of an unknown word.
What is Context Clues
200
Sally Sold Sea Shells by the sea shore
What is alliteration
200
This type of reading is organized by stanzas, lines and rhyme scheme.
What is poetry
300
Turning point in a story
What is Climax
300
Shows the development of a problem and the solution. (signal words include: because, since, as a result of , so that)
What is Problem and Solution
300
A conversation between two characters
What is dialogue
300
I am so tired I could sleep forever.
What is hyperbole
300
This type of writing uses stage directions to explain the setting of events and characters present.
What is Drama
400
The repeated message or lesson in a text that helps the reader understand more about life or human behavior.
What is Theme
400
Shows all the ways that two or more things are similar and different; signal words include: like, unlike, same as, but, in contrast to, compared to, on the other hand
What is Compare and Contrast
400
Combining inferences you have made about the characters setting or plot to make a statement you have discovered from analyzing the text.
What is Drawing Conclusions
400
the tree waved her arms in the wind.
What is personification
400
This type of writing involves an event in history. Contains historical facts, events, or people but is not true.
What is Historical Fiction
500
The problem in a story
What is Conflict
500
Puts events in their correct order based upon the TIME in which they happened.
What is Chronological Order
500
When a reader uses clues from the text plus what they already know about human life to draw a conclusion
What is Inference
500
She was as calm as the wind on a quiet summer evening.
What is siimile
500
A fictional story that uses supernatural beings to teach a moral or explain a natural phenomenon