Good readers use this strategy when they use the words they just read to create a picture in their minds.
What is visualization?
100
The author's purpose for writing most fiction stories.
What is to entertain?
100
This text feature is used to show the location of places. It may be included in an article about the best places to see bluebonnets in Texas in the spring, or to show the route of the Lewis and Clark expedition.
What is a map?
100
A group of lines in poetry.
What is stanza?
100
The name for the group of people in a play.
What is cast?
200
There are 3 types of these: text-to-text, text-to-self, and text-to-world.
What is text connections?
200
Fiction texts always include this description of time and place.
What is setting?
200
This text feature helps me know what words are important in the text.
What is bold or italicized words?
200
A group of words in poetry.
What is a line?
200
These are the words a character in a play would say.
What is a line?
300
Good readers use this strategy to give them a purpose for reading and to monitor their comprehension of the text. It is used before the begin to read, while they are reading and after reading. There are 4 different types.
What is questioning?
300
These are based on the actions and words of the characters and tell what the character is like.
What is characters traits (or character analysis)?
300
Autobiographies and biographies are included in this genre of text.
What is literary non-fiction?
300
Poetry that does not rhyme and has no set meter or rhythm is called this.
What is free verse?
300
These are the words that tell what the characters should be doing as they say their lines. They are usually set apart in brackets [].
What is stage direction?
400
Good readers develop these by using clues from the text and their schema to make to make predictions in the text or connect ideas. Often this refers to what you do when a reader has to use their own knowledge to make sense of what is going on in the story.
What is inferencing?
400
All stories are written with this in mind including rising action, climax and falling action, and resolution.
What is a plot?
400
The author's purpose of an advertisement about the best features of an ipad that includes words like "you should" and "best."
What is to persuade?
400
Poetry doesn't always do this, but can. The types that usually do are ballads, epics, and narrative.
What is tell a story?
400
True or false. A play has a plot.
What is true?
500
This is when you look over the text before you read, looking for things like the title, bold words, and graphics.
What is previewing?
500
Authors sometimes includes this hidden message or lesson in their stories. It tells what the author thinks about the subject and gives an overall idea of what the passage is about.
What is theme?
500
A newspaper article about the dangers of playing video games all day is this type of text.
What is informational text?
500
This literary device compares things in writing to help the reader better visualize what they read. They are usually written with the words "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
500
These types of genres can have a plot, characters and setting.
What is all literacy genres, except informational texts that do not tell a story?