Fiction and Nonfiction

antagonist

• the main character

• the character that opposes, or works against, the protagonist

• the character that plays an animal in the story

• the character that wrote the story

comprehension

• knowing how to write

• knowing how to cook

• knowing how to speak

• understanding what you read

conflict

• the major problem in the story

• the mountain

• the character in the story

• the ending of the story

context

• the character of the story

• the author of the the story

• the words and sentences that surround an unknown word

• the main idea

conventions

• rules of language

• a circus

• words

• story

fiction

• when you rub a balloon on your head

• when you drop your pencil

• stories that tell about imaginary characters, situations, places and events

• stories about the news

fluency

• reading in a hurry

• laughing while you read

• driving fast

• the ability to read easily and smoothly

nonfiction

• texts that tell about real people and places and events that actually occurred

• a comic book

• a report about a talking monster

• a joke

paraphrase

• to guess what you read

• to write a story

• to rewrite or restate an entire text in your own words.

• to text someone

plot

• the narrator

• the sequence or pattern of events in a story

• the character in a story

• the author