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This genre informs the reader about the major events in a famous or important person's life.
What is a biography?
100
These are parts of a text (such as a photograph, caption, title, map, or table) that help the reader find information in an expository text.
What is a text feature?
100
This is the theme of Rough Face Girl.
What is 'Never give up', 'be true to yourself', 'have courage to overcome obstacles'?
100
The purpose of this text feature is to show the reader the central idea/topic of the text
What is the title?
100
These important parts of a fiction story can be represented by the acronym 'S.W.B.S.T.'
What is the 'Somebody, Wanted, But, So, Then'?
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This genre uses many forms of imagery and figurative language to help create emotional responses and mental pictures for the reader. Sometimes, this type of text contains rhyme or meter to help get the message across.
What is poetry?
200
A short paragraph that includes the important events, or main points, of a text.
What is a summary?
200
This is the theme of Gleam and Glow.
What is 'Never give up hope'?
200
The purpose of this text feature is to identify key topics in the book and the order they are presented in.
What is the Table of Contents?
200
Some examples of these are limerick, haiku, concrete, lyric, and free verse.
What are forms of poetry?
300
La Ranita, The Frog Princess is an example of this genre. It contains dialogue and scenes and is intended to be performed in front of an audience.
What is drama?
300
This is the big idea/lesson/message of a text; what the author wants you to learn by reading what he or she has written.
What is the theme?
300
This is the theme of 'Jimmy Jet and His TV Set'.
What is 'Don't watch too much TV'?
300
The purpose of this text feature is to understand the sequence of time or the order of events in the text.
What is a timeline?
300
This is a type of figurative language that has a separate meaning apart from the literal meaning of the phrase. An example is 'our homework is a piece of cake'.
What is an idiom?
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This type of expository text is written to sway, or change the mind of the reader. The author uses facts and opinions to support their position on an issue or problem.
What is a persuasive text?
400
This is the topic of an expository piece; what the entire expository pillar works to support.
What is the central idea?
400
These are the themes in Booker T. Washington and More Than Anything Else.
What is 'Education can change your life', 'Never give up on your dreams', 'Work hard for what you want', 'Nothing is impossible'?
400
The purpose of this text feature is to signal that a vocabulary word is important, or can be found in the glossary.
What is bold print?
400
This organizational structure is used to show how the main ideas support the central idea or topic in an expository text.
What is the Expository Pillar?
500
This genre is written purely to inform the reader, and can be organized by cause/effect, compare/contrast, problem/solution, or sequence.
What is expository text?
500
You do this when you combine your background knowledge with clues from the story to figure out something that the author doesn't tell you.
What is making an inference?
500
This is the theme for La Ranita, The Frog Princess.
What is 'don't judge a book by its cover'?
500
The purpose of this text feature is to help reader navigate through sections of the text, and to help identify the main ideas that support the central idea of the text.
What are subtitles/subheadings?
500
These two types of figurative language are used to compare 2 objects. One uses the words 'like' or 'as' to make a comparison, i.e. 'she was as beautiful as a flower'. The other type makes the same sort of comparison, without using 'like' or 'as', i.e. 'her face was a flower'.
What are simile and metaphor?