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  • A nonfiction text that contains words like "similarly," "in contrast," and "on the other hand" is most likely organized using what text structure?
    Compare and Contrast
  • What is the "mood" of a text?
    How the words in the text make the reader feel
  • The text structure of Order and Sequence is sometimes called _______.
    Chronological Order
  • Poems are organized in ___________.
    Stanzas
  • How do headings help readers understand nonfiction texts?
    They organize ideas from the passage
  • What is the theme of a story?
    The moral/lesson that the author is trying to teach you.
  • What can you use to help you determine the meaning of an unknown word? (2 things!)
    Context & Morphology
  • What key words let you know that a story is told in first person point of view?
    I, me, my
  • What is the setting of a text?
    Where the story takes place
  • The author's __________ is the reason why they wrote the text (to inform, entertain, or persuade).
    purpose
  • A biography is usually written using what text structure?
    Order and Sequence/Chronological Order
  • To make an inference, you need 2 things
    your schema + what the text says
  • What is the main purpose of a caption?
    To tell the reader what is being shown in the photograph
  • If a story is told by an outside narrator, what point of view is the story told from?
    Third person
  • The part of a script that tells the actors what to do is called ___?
    stage directions
  • What is the "central idea" or "main idea" of a text?
    The author's main point about a topic shown in the text
  • How a nonfiction text is organized is referred to as ____________.
    Text structure
  • What does the word "summary" mean?
    A summary is a short overview of what the story was about. It includes the main idea of the text but NOT every little detail..
  • A prefix comes __ a root word.
    before
  • A synonym is a word that means the __________ as another word
    same
  • What text feature would be most helpful to use to determine the meanings of unknown words?
    What text feature would be most helpful to use to determine the meanings of unknown words?
  • A prediction is a smart __________ about what might happen next in a story.
    guess (inference)
  • In a play, the list of who is in the story is called the cast of __________.
    characters
  • In a poem, words at the end of each line that have the same sound are called ___ words.
    rhyming
  • A ____ is the written form of a play or drama, including lines for characters to say.
    script
  • If a question asks you to answer a question "according to the selection," what does the word "selection" mean?
    The passage
  • If a story is told by a character in the text, what point of view is the story told from?
    First person
  • What is the plot in a text?
    The events that take place in the story
  • Which text structure includes key words like challenge, issue, problem, resolve, solution?
    problem-solution
  • To understand nonfiction text better, you can look at ___ ___ like headings, bold print, and captions.
    text features
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