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 informational text | a nonfiction text, written to share factual information |
| literary devices | tools used by the author to make the story interesting |
| literary elements | important techniques used in literature |
| literary nonfiction | this type of text includes literary elements and devices normally found in fiction, but it tells about real people, places, or events |
| main idea | the author's most important point, usually found in the topic sentence |
| metaphor | a figure of speech that compares 2 unlike things without using the words "like" or "as" |
| multiple meaning words | words that can have several meanings, depending upon how they are used in a sentence |
| narrative | type of text that tells a story (may be fiction or nonfiction) |
| nonfiction | factual writing that explains, informs, or describes (rather than entertains) |
| paraphrase | to restate something you read or hear by putting it in your own words |
| personification | giving human qualities, feelings, or actions to something that is not human |
| phonics | the letter/sound relationships used by beginning readers |
| plot | a story's sequence of events |
| poetry | writing that provides an emotional experience by using figurative language, imagery, and rhythm |
| point of view | the position from which a story is told |
| prefix | a group of letters placed at the beginning of a word to change its meaning |
| resolution | the part of a story that comes after the climax, when the conflict is resolved |
| rhyme | similar final sounds in words, usually at the end of lines in a poem |
| rising action | the part of a story where the plot becomes complicated, leading up to the climax |
| setting | a story's time and place |
| simile | comparing two unlike things by using the words "like" or "as" |
| subject area | organized knowledge about a particular topic |
| suffix | a group of letters placed at the end of a word to change its meaning |
| summarize | to retell the most important parts of a text in a much shorter space, and in your own words |
| style | how an author writes, using language to interest the reader in his or her purpose |
| synonym | one word that has the same meaning as another word |
| target words | words that students are expected to know |
| theme | a major idea that is the topic of discussion or writing |
| third person | point of view in which the author tells a story about the characters, like a narrator |