Reading

Things that are true and can be proven.

Literary nonfiction that tells the story of a person's life written by that person.

Acts may be divided into smaller sections called...

When readers use clues, textual evidence, and/or background knowledge to figure things out.

Bold print, captions, proper nouns, dates, paragraph numbers...

When the author presents events in the time order they happened.

Stories from long time ago created to explain things people observed in the world around them.

Who the story is mostly about.

Made up story that could happen in real life.

An idea that occurs throughout the text. Tries to teach you a lesson.

A literary nonfiction that tells the story of a person's life, written by someone else.

The person who tells or narrates a story.

Hints of what will happen later in the plot; future.

To retell in your own words.

Gives facts and information about a topic.

Instructions and information given to the actors. May be in brackets, parentheses, or italics.

I use this to protect myself from the sun or rain.

A form of writing that often rhymes and tells a story or describes something.

A form of writing that tells a true story of a subject.

A form of writing that tries to convince you to do something or think a certain way.

Why the author does something.

The place and time of a story.

An organizational pattern used where because of this, this happened.

A language that goes beyond its literal meaning. For example, similes and metaphors.

In every fiction story there are characters, setting, and plot.

A long drama is divided into sections or...

Finding similarities and differences in a passage. How a text can be organized.

Forming vivid pictures in our head of scenes in a story.

The narrator knows all characters actions and feelings.

Narrator knows thoughts and feelings of main character.

Personal beliefs, or your own way of thinking. Cannot be proved true.

To stretch the truth.

The people in a drama. The name followed by a colon :

Male. Popular. Ring. Fighting. "You can't see me!"

A series of events that includes conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution.

Tells a story through words and actions of characters. Performed in a theater or school stage.

I am full of animals. The animals are in cages. We take field trips to this location.

To compare and contrast

Maps, charts, graphs, pictures, illustrations, ads...

Literary text that includes directions or steps in a process.