Week 2.8 Review Vocabulary

Describes a topic, idea, person, or thing by giving specific information about it. Clue words: for example, in addition, specifically, looks/feels/ sounds like

• Descriptive text structure

• Compare and contrast text structure

• Cause and effect text structure

• Sequence or Chronological text structure

Shows how two or more things are alike and how they are different. Clue words: different, alike, unlike, similar, however, both

• Descriptive text structure

• Compare and contrast text structure

• Cause and effect text structure

• Sequence or Chronological text structure

Shows the relationship between cause (why) and effect (what happened). Clue words: as a result, because of, reason why, consequently

• Descriptive text structure

• Compare and contrast text structure

• Cause and effect text structure

• Sequence or Chronological text structure

Explains events or steps in order to tell how something is done or how something happens. Clue words: first, next, then, before, after that, finally

• Descriptive text structure

• Compare and contrast text structure

• Cause and effect text structure

• Sequence or Chronological text structure

Discusses a problem and gives possible solutions to fix the problem. Clue words: therefore, because of, reason why, solve

• Descriptive text structure

• Problem and solution text structure

• Cause and effect text structure

• Sequence or Chronological text structure

A genre (type of story) that is imagined with characters, setting and plot.

• fiction

• poetry

• nonfiction

• drama

A genre that uses real people, setting, and plot to convey actual events. Subgenres are informational, biography, and autobiography

• fiction

• poetry

• nonfiction

• drama

A genre with a cast of character, dialogue, and stage directions showing setting, feelings, and actions

• fiction

• poetry

• nonfiction

• drama

A genre that uses lines, stanzas, rhyme, and rhythm to convey ideas, emotions, or thoughts

• folktale

• poetry

• nonfiction

• drama

A subgenre of fiction that uses exaggerated characters and obstacles, and have been passed down over generations by mouth; legends, myths, fables, tall tales, fairy tales

• folktale

• poetry

• nonfiction

• drama