The people, animals, or things that the story is about.
What are characters?
Divide the text into smaller sections, tell the main idea of a section, help the reader locate information in the text.
What is a subheading?
A poem with seven syllables that is usually about nature.
What is a haiku?
Phrases that do not mean exactly what they say.
What is an idiom?
Highlighting, making notes, using sticky notes, and proving your answers in your test.
What are strategies?
Physical and emotional parts of a character.
What are traits?
A chart that shows events in the order that they happened.
What is a timeline?
The matching up of sounds and syllables, usually at the end of lines.
What is rhyme/rhyming?
A word added at the beginning of a word and a word added at the end of the word.
What are prefixes and suffixes?
An author's purpose can be PIE
What is persuade, inform, and entertain?
The central idea of the story. It is the message the author wants you to learn.
What is theme?
The words near a picture that explains what it is about.
What is a caption?
Rhyming, alliteration, onomatopoeia are examples of ___ that make poetry more fun.
What are sound devices?
Comparing two different things using the words "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
Using words or phrases around an unfamiliar word to find out what it means.
What are context clues?
This is what happens in a story. The sequence of events in the story.
1) A true statement that can be proven.
2) What someone thinks or how they feel about something.
What is a fact? What is an opinion?
Making a picture in your mind using your five senses
What is visualizing?
A word that means the same as another word and a word that means the opposite of another word.
What are synonyms and antonyms?
What happens in a text and the reasons why it happens.
What is cause and effect?
The five elements of a story.
What are plot, characters, setting, theme, and conflict?
What the story, text, or passage is mostly about.
What is the central idea?
AABB, ABAB, ABBA, ABCB
What are the four different rhyme schemes?
Role and Roll are two examples of this.
What are homophones?
What is an inference/making inferences?