Genres
this genre gives facts and information about a topic
What is nonfiction?
After recess, the students smelled like wet dogs.
What is a simile?
this feature shows the location of things and paths of travel
What is a Map?
Fiction stories follow this (rising action, falling action, resolution)
What is Plot?
a group of lines within a poem
What is a stanza?
Joe and bill went shopping at Cross Keys Mall.
What change needs to be made?
Capitalize Bill
this genre tells a story, it has subgenres such as traditional tales, narratives, and tall tales
What is Fiction?
Didn't I tell you to not do that 5,000,000 times?
What is a Hyperbole?
this feature shows events in the order they happened
What is a Timeline?
When and where a story takes place
What is the setting?
uses words that create images that appeal to the senses
What are sensory words or imagery?
My best friends birthday is in november.
What change needs to be made? (2 parts)
this genre breaks grammar rules, it uses figurative language, often rhymes, and uses sensory words to create mental images.
What is Poetry?
She is an early bird.
What is a metaphor?
this is what the text is mostly about
What is the central idea?
the major event or turning point in the story
a pattern of stresses syllables that create a beat
What is rhythm?
What change needs to be made?
Whent should be spelled went.
What is Drama?
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
this tells what a section of text will be about
What is a Heading?
The author's purpose is usually to
What is entertain?
Where each line of text ends
What is a line break?
Apples are delicious Fruit you eet?
What change needs to be made? (3 parts)
Fruit to fruit
eet to eat
? to .
this subgenre has tall tales, fairy tales, fold tales, myths, fables, and legends. It often has a setting in a made up place, with magical beings, and it teaches us a lesson or moral.
What are Traditional Tales?
The barn often had a sort of peaceful smell as though nothing bad could happen ever again in the world.
What is Imagery?
This is a section within a section
What is a subheading or subtopic?
the person or animal the story is about
What is a character?
uses words with the same ending sound
What are rhyming words?
I have to wear my coat mittens and scarf in the winter
What change needs to be made?? (3 parts)
I have to wear my coat, mittens, and scarf in the winter.