WorksheetsReading Vocabulary
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This type of writing talks about similarities and differences between people, places, things, etc.
Description
Compare & Contrast
Order & Sequence
Cause & Effect
In this type of writing, the reader will see words/phrases such as because, as a result of, and due to.
Cause & Effect
Problem & Solution
Order & Sequence
Compare & Contrast
In this type of writing the reader will find words/phrases such as a problem is, solve,or solution.
Cause & Effect
Problem & Solution
Order & Sequence
Compare & Contrast
This type of writing is usually in chronological order.
Cause & Effect
Problem & Solution
Order & Sequence
Compare & Contrast
This type of writing includes many adjectives, examples, or characteristics.
Description
Compare & Contrast
Order & Sequence
Problem & Solution
Point of view is...
The opinion of the author
The text structure of a story
The perspective of who is telling/ narrating a story
The reader's opinion
In which point of view does the author use pronouns like ''your" and "you."
Second Person
Third Person
First Person
Joey comes over to his friend's house. As he steps in, he sees Jack sitting on the stairs.
As I stepped onto the shiny porch of my new house, I thought to myself,"This is gonna be a good day."
Point is view is utilized in any piece of literature.
One of the features of _________ is that an author takes a stand and ask the readers to agree with him/her.
Narrative Text
Historical Text
Persuasive Text
Descriptive Text
A text which the purpose is to amuse or to entertain readers with a story is called ...
Narrative Text
Descriptive Text
Informational Text
Persuasive Text
If a text has only facts, what kind of text is it?
Instructive Text
Informational Text
Descriptive Text
Persuasive Text
A book with wizards and magic would be considered...
Realistic Fiction
Autobiography
Fantasy
Historical Fiction
A text about a newly discovered dinosaur that Paleontologists believe to have live on Earth 125-million years ago would be considered...
Fantasy
Realistic Fiction
Biography
Scientific Text
What type of text is an account of someone's life written by someone else?
Scientific Text
Historical Text
Biography
Autobiography
A story set in a real place in the past with accurate and authentic information about the specific time period.
Realistic Fiction
Fantasy
Biography
Historical Text
What type of text is an instruction manual for how to build your new birdhouse?
Prose
Realistic Fiction
Historical Text
Technical Text
What type of text is an account of a person's life written by that person?
Biography
Autobiography
Historical Text
Technical Text
What genre is a story originating in popular culture, typically passed on by word of mouth.
Fantasy
Drama
Poetry
Folktale
What type of text is a script for Romeo & Juliet that will be performed in front of an audience.
Nonfiction
Drama
Mystery
Historical Text
What is the type of text that is considered "ordinary writing" and is made up of sentences and paragraphs, without any rhyming structure.
Poetry
Prediction
Prose
Persuasive Text
What genre consists of stories that could have actually occurred to people or animals in a believable setting? These stories resemble real life, and characters within these stories react similarly to real people.
Realistic Nonfiction
Realistic Fiction
Unrealistic Nonfiction
Unrealistic Fiction
Which type of poem does an author express personal emotion or feelings?
Narrative Poem
Realistic Poem
Lyric Poem
Dramatic Poem
The struggle that the main character tries to overcome.
Conflict
Main Idea
Mood
Plot
The series of events that make up a story.
Context Clues
Plot
Stanza
Mood
What does it mean to analyze a piece of text?
To evoke feelings in readers through words and descriptions.
To tell a story of events or experiences.
To read the stanzas of a poem.
To break apart and study the pieces.
What is a narrator?
The quality of being important and meaningful.
A person who gives an account or tells a story of events or experiences.
Who the events in the story happen to.
The feelings that are evoked by what is being told in the story.
What is dialogue?
The person who is telling the story.
The quality of being important and meaningful.
The things that are said by the characters in a story, movie or play.
The inferences that a reader makes by what is said by the characters.
Mood is an element of literature that does what?
Evokes feelings in readers through words.
Breaks apart and studies the pieces.
Connects what you are reading to other stories.
Tells the most important parts of the story.
What is a group of lines in a poem?
Context Clues
Mood
Narrator
Stanza
A piece of visual information that includes a drawing with labeled parts to explain something is called what?
Stanza
Diagram
Mood
Plot
What are the hints that an author gives you to help you understand information in a text?
Significance
Narrator
Context Clues
Mood
Feelings, actions, choices, words, and thoughts display the ________ of a character.
Character Traits
Theme
Main Character
Drama
The author's underlying message is the...
Simile
Metaphor
Antagonist
Theme
The time and place of a story is the...
Inference
Setting
Summary
Lyrical
By using the clues from the text and the schema I already have I can...
Main Idea
Drama
Infer
Summarize
What is the most important point the author wants to make?
Main Idea
Setting
Theme
Character Traits
The author uses thoughts and feelings to write about themselves or a personal event they experienced.
Firsthand Account
Evidence
Reason
Secondhand Account
The author uses research to write about someone else or an event that someone else experienced.
Reasons
Firsthand Account
Secondhand Account
Opinion
Choose the example of a Secondhand Account.
Diary
Speech
Nonfiction Book
Autobiography
Choose the example of a Firsthand Account.
Speeches
Encyclopedia
Textbook
Nonfiction Books
A diary is an example of which type of account?
Secondhand Account
Firsthand Account
An encyclopedia is an example of which type of account?
Firsthand Account
Secondhand Account
In a piece of text, what is a word or phrase that gives important information about an event like who, what, when, where, why. This word or phrase gives the reader a clue about the meaning of an unfamiliar or new word.
Annotation
Supporting Details
Main Idea
Author's Purpose
What is the process of taking notes directly on the literary text while reading?
Author's Purpose
Point of View
Text Structure
Annotating
Which best describes a form of visual information that displays a graphic representation of the passage of time?
Diagram
Photograph
Timeline
Chart
What refers to how a piece of text is organized?
Text Structure
Stanza
Chronology
Elements
Which word can best be defined as any person, animal, or figure represented in a piece of literature?
Person
Character Traits
Character
Author
Which is a method of organization in which actions or events are presented as they occur or occurred in time?
Text Structure
Chronology/Chronological Order
Reason
Evidence
What is an author doing when they use reason and evidence to make someone believe the same way they do?
Evaluating
Integrating
Inferring
Persuading
What is a reader doing when they say what they "think" will happen in a story before it happens.
Persuading
Prose
Predicting
Solving a problem
What skill is a reader doing when they describe a piece of text by condensing the information and just telling the most important parts of a story?
Summarizing
Connecting
Inferring
Evaluating
Which best describes the reason an author decides to write about a specific topic?
Moral
Theme
Author's Purpose
Main Idea
Stated or Implied: The author tells what the theme is at the end of a fable.
Stated
Implied
Stated or Implied: You have to use the setting and events to determine the theme of the story.
Stated
Implied
Combining information from 2 different pieces of text can be called ________.
Motivation
Mood
Integrate
Infer
_________ is generally conveyed through the choice of words, or the viewpoint of a writer on a particular subject.
Motivation
Setting
Theme
Tone
In a story, a poem, or an event, what is the lesson learned?
Moral
Motivation
Problem
Evidence
Plot, theme, character and tone are all literary ________.
Hint: Another word for this is parts.
Text Structures
Techniques
Elements
Processes
In literature, what is defined as a reason behind a character's specific action or behavior.
Moral
Theme
Motivation
Main Idea
The major turning point in a story is called the _________.
Falling Action
Rising Action
Exposition
Climax
What is a reader doing when they take information from a text and compare it to what they already know, in order to come up with a conclusion?
Summarizing
Reasoning
Evaluating
Informing
To answer this: "I know this because...." a reader must use specific ____________ from the text.
Evidence
Inferences
Dialouge
Questions
In order to persuade your parents to buy you a dog, you must use:
Reason & Begging
Begging & Evidence
Reason & Evidence
Begging & Crying
Which word is best defined as: to note or describe the similarities/things that are the same.
Contrast
Compare
Combine
Collaborate
Which word is best defined as: to note or describe the differences/things that are not the same.
Contrast
Compare
Combine
Collaborate
When a piece of text is written in a "normal" way of talking, what type of language is being used?
Computer Language
Natural Language
Written Language
English Language
In a story, a situation that needs to be dealt with/solved is called what?
Solution
Contrast
Compare
Problem
In a story, how a difficult situation is dealt with/solved is called what?
Solution
Compare
Contrast
Problem
A prepositional phrase includes a preposition, its object, and any modifiers of the object.
Identify the prepositional phrase in this sentence: Be sure to review your facts before the quiz.
to review
before the quiz
be sure
review your facts
