FAST Reading Terms

when an author gives human traits/actions to non-human things

• perspective

• personification

• humanification

• main character

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.2.3

when words or phrases mean something different than their literal meaning 

• connotation

• foreshadowing

• figurative language

• resolution

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

the solution of a problem, or how the conflict is resolved in a story

• ending

• denotation

• point of view

• resolution

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.3

to tell how two things are alike and different

• compare and contrast

• alliteration

• simile

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.1.3

the person telling the story

• character

• narrator

• author

• point of view

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

the positive or negative feeling you get from a word

• mood

• rhyme

• denotation

• connotation

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

the main point an author is trying to make, or what they believe to be true about a topic

• narrator

• point of view

• author's claim

• theme

the most important or main idea of a text, or what the text is mostly about

• theme

• central idea

• relevant details

• inference

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

the message or lesson or a story, usually a bigger life lesson that can apply to our own lives 

• theme

• central idea

• summary

• setting

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.9

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.3.9

where and when a story takes place

• location

• setting

• character

• plot

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.1.3