Key Terms for Milestones Writing

What are passages that are stories, dramas, or poems called?

• literary text

• Non-literal language

• Narrator

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.3

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

What do you call an idea or message stated by the writer that tells the readers exactly what they need to

know?

• Plot

• Explicit

• Point of View

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.4C

CCSS.RI.2.4

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

CCSS.RL.3.2

What is a story that usually has animals as characters and teaches a lesson or moral?

• Fable

• Sequence

• Compare vs. contrast

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.3

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.K.3

What is a traditional story that is usually shared by storytelling?

• Setting

• Chapter

• Folktale

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.K.5

What is a story that is believed by many but is untrue and is often used to explain practices, beliefs, or natural events?

• Literal Language

• Recount

• Myth

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

What is an idea or theme the literary text communicates that is usually a moral or lesson?

• Scene

• Central Message

• Point of view

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.3

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

What is it called when someone writes an explanation of the key details of a passage in the order they happened and in a way that supports the central message of the passage?

• Recount

• Character

• Stanza

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.3

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

Where and when a story takes place, including the time of day, the season, or a location is called?

• Illustrations

• Plot

• Setting

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.3

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

The events in the beginning, middle, and end of the story are called?

• Chapter

• Plot

• Recount

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.3

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

A person or thing in a work of literature is called?

• Stanza

• Vocabulary

• Character

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.3

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3