The author discusses similarities and differences between people, thing, concepts, or ideas

Identify POV - Chris loved chess. He practiced everyday.

The author's attitude toward writing is?

She picked purple peppers.

An interruption of events that tell about an earlier event

A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit; in a poem; a verse

How do we use compare and contrast?

The reason an author wrote a piece of text.

Figure something out in the passage; text will give you clues that you may have to think about

Taking larger selections of text and reducing them to their bare essentials

An introduction to the characters, setting and possible situation/conflict of a story.

Internal conflict; a conflict within a character

a person is in conflict with a blizzard, tornado, river, etc

the turning point in the story; the point in a story when the conflict must be solved

the message or lesson the author wants the reader to understand

the words that are spoken by the actors in a play

a poetry paragraph

ideas are presented step-by-step

ideas are presented in the order in which they appear

the lesson of a myth or folktale

hints about events that will occur further on in a story

It was so cold, even the polar bears were wearing jackets.

I saw five fish fly past.

gobble

is what the text is mostly about

pieces of information that support the main idea

Her teacher told her to be quiet, yet she decided to continue to talk to her neighbor.

Ana can go to the movies, or she can go to the game.

Before you can go to the game, you must finish your homework.