Main Idea
The central, or most important, idea in a paragraph or passage. It states the purpose and sets the direction of the paragraph or passage.
What is the main idea?
Read for entertainment
What is fiction?
Includes text features such as photos, captions, headings, subheadings, graphs, charts, diagrams.
What is nonfiction?
The main character
Who is the portagonist?
What is a simile?
Horse racing is legal in your state, but you cannot legally play poker for money on your front porch; bookies may be prosecuted by state law, but they are supposed to purchase a federal license nonetheless; one church condemns gambling, while another raises money by sponsoring Bingo games. Gambling laws are inconsistent from state to state or even from town to town and are very difficult to enforce. The attitudes of Americans toward gambling are amazingly contradictory.
What is the attitudes of Americans toward gambling are amazingly contradictory?
Read to gather/learn information
What is informational?
character tags, acts, scenes, stage directions
What is the text structure of drama?
The character or elements that work against the protagonist.
What is the antagonist?
The deep blue hues of twilight were reflected in the still water.
What is imagery?
Advertising affects our lives everyday. Brand names are common household words. We start each day using the toothpaste, soap, and breakfast foods promoted by advertisers. Ads have made the cars we drive signs of our success. Our choices of food, dress, and entertainment are swayed by ads. Not one aspect of American life is untouched by advertising.
What is Advertising affects our lives everyday?
Read to experience rich language and emotion
What is poetry?
Recognize view/claim, Judge evidence as logical
and/or feasible, and Recognize bias
What is the argumentative genre?
Where and when the story takes place
What is setting?
The sky misses the sun at night.
What is personification?
The Louisiana Purchase doubled the area of the country and provided territory from which fourteen new states were created either wholly or in part. The Louisiana Purchase proved to be one of the shrewdest business pacts in the entire history of the United States. The cost of the transaction was unbelievably low; the total of $15 million amounted to about four cents an acre.
What is the Louisiana Purchase proved to be one of the shrewdest business pacts in the entire history of the United States?
Read to perform
What is drama?
Stanzas and lines
What is the poetry text structure?
The high or emotional suspenseful scene.
What is the climax?
The classroom was a zoo.
What is a metaphor?
There is a common belief that while the dog is man’s best friend, the coyote is his worst enemy. The bad reputation of the coyote traces back to his fondness for small animals; he hunts at night and is particularly destructive to sheep, young pigs, and poultry. Yet it is sometimes wise to encourage coyotes. Provided valuable farm animals are protected, the coyote will often free the property of other animals, like rabbits, which are ruinous to crops and certain trees. He is especially beneficial in keeping down the rodent population. Where coyotes have been allowed to do their work without molestation, ranchers and fruit growers have found them so valuable that they would no more shoot them than they would shoot their dogs.
What is yet it is sometimes wise to encourage coyotes?
Borrows storytelling elements of fiction to tell a true story in an engaging way
What is literary non-fiction?
Read the text in the order it is written in. It has a beginning, middle, and end.
What is the genre of fiction?
What the character thinks, says, and does. Also, how the other characters treat the character.
What is characterization?
I was dying of laughter.
Whar is a hyperbole?