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Reading OAA terms
Terms & Difinitions
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Alliteration | Repeating the same sound at the beginning of several words in a phrase or sentence. For example, "The bees buzzed in the back of the blue barn." |
| Adjectives | Words that describe nouns. |
| Adverbs | Words that describe verbs. |
| Antonyms | Words that mean the opposite (big-small) |
| Author's Purpose | The reason an author writes, such as to entertain, to inform, or to persuade. |
| Audience | The people who read a written piece or hear the piece being read. |
| Author's Tone | The attitude the writer takes toward an audience, a subject, or a character. Tone is shown through the writer's choice of words and details. Examples: happy, sad, angry, gentle |
| Base Word/Root Word | The central part of a word that other word parts may be attached to. |
| Biography | A true story about a person's life. |
| Cause | The reason for an action, feeling, or response. |
| Character | A person or an animal in a story, play, or other literary work. |
| Compare | To use examples to show how things are alike. |
| Contrast | To use examples to show how things are different. |
| Details | Many small parts which help to tell a story. |
| Descriptive Text | To create a clear picture of a person, place, thing, or idea by using vivid words. |
| Directions | An order or instructions on how to do something or how to act. |
| Draw Conclusion | To make a decision or form an opinion after considering the facts from the text. |
| Effect | A result of a cause. |
| Events | Things that happen. |
| Fact | An actual happening or truth. |
| Fiction | A passage that is made up rather than factually true. (novels or short stories) |
| Format | The way a published piece of writing looks, including the font, legibility, spacing, margins, and white space. |
| Generalize | To come to a broad idea or rule about something after considering particular facts. |
| Genres | Categories of literary and informational works (biography, mystery, historical fiction, poetry) |
| Graphic Organizer | Any illustration, chart, table, diagram, or map used to help interpret information about the text. |
| Heading | A word or group of words at the top or front of a piece of writing. |
| Infer | To make a guess based on facts and observations. |
| Inference | An important idea or conclusion drawn from reasoning rather than directly stated in the text. |
| Inform | To give knowledge; to tell. |
| Informational Text/Expository Text | Text with the purpose of telling about details, facts and information that is true (nonfiction). Informational text is found in textbooks, encyclopedias, biographies, and newspaper articles. |
| Literary Devices | Techniques used to convey an author's message or voice (figurative language, simile, metaphors). |
| Literary Text/Narrative Text | Text that describes actions or events, usually written as fiction. (novels or short stories) |
| Main Idea | The main reason the passage was written; every passage has a main idea. Usually you can find the main idea in the topic sentence of the paragraph. |
| Metaphor | A comparison between 2 unlike things without using the words "like" or "as." ("My bedroom is a junkyard!") |
| Mood | The feeling or emotion the reader gets from a piece of writing. |
| Nonfiction | A passage of writing that tells about real people, events, and places without changing any facts. (autobiography, biography, essays, newspaper article, magazine article, personal diary, letters). |
| Onomatopoeia | The use of words in which the sound of the word suggests the sound associated with it (buzz, splat, hiss). |
| Opinion | What one thinks about something or somebody; an opinion is not necessarily based on facts. Feelings and experiences usually help a person form an opinion. |
| Passage | A passage or writing that may be fiction or nonfiction. |
| Persuade | To cause to do something by using reason or argument; to cause to believe something. |
| Plan | A method of doing something that has been thought out ahead of time. |
| Plot | A series of events that make up a story. Plot tells "what happens" in a story, novel, or narrative poem. |
| Plot sequence | The order of events in a story. |
| Poetry | A type of writing that uses images and patterns to express feelings. |
| Point of View | The way a story is told; it could be in first person, by a narrator, or in third person. |
| Predict | The ability of the reader to know or expect that something is going to happen in a text before it does. |
| Prefix | A group of letters added to the beginning of a word. (untie, rebuild, preteen) |
| Preposition | A word that links another word or group of words to other parts of of the sentence. (in, on of, at, by , between, outside) |
| Problem | An issue or question in a text that needs to be answered. |
| Published Work | The final writing draft shared with the audience. |
| Reliable | Sources used for writing that are trustworthy. |
| Resource | A source of help or support. |
| Rhyme | When words have the same last sound. (hat/cat, most/toast, ball/call) |
| Schema | The accumulated knowledge that a person can draw from life experiences to help understand concepts, roles, emotions, and events. |
| Sentence | A group of words that express a complete thought. It has a subject and a verb. |
| Sequential Order | The arrangement of ordering of information, content, or ideas (a story told in chronological order describes what happened first, then, next). |
| Setting | The time and place of a story or play. The setting helps to create the mood in a story, such as inside a spooky house or inside a shopping mall during the holidays. |
| Simile | A comparison between 2 unlike things, using the words "like" or "as." ("Her eyes are as big as saucers.") |
| Solution | An answer to a problem. |
| Stanzas | Lines of poetry grouped together. |
| Story | An account of something that happened. |
| Story Elements | The important parts of the story, including characters, setting, plot, problem, and solution. |
| Style | A way of writing that is individual to the writer, such as the writer's choice of words, phrases, and images. |
| Suffix | A group of letters added to the end of a word. (colorful, sugarless) |
| Summary | To retell what happens in a story in a short way by telling the main ideas, not details. |
| Supporting Details | Statements that often follow the main idea. Supporting details give you more information about the main idea. |
| Symbolism | Something that represents something else. (A dove is a symbol for peace.) |
| Synonyms | Words with the same. or almost the same, meaning. (sketch/draw) |
| Theme | The major idea or topic that the author reveals in a literary work. A theme is usually not stated directly in the work. Instead, the reader has to think about all the details of the work and them make an educated guess about what they all mean. |
| Title | A name of a book, film, play, piece of music, or other work of art. |
| Tone | A way of writing that shows a feeling. |
| Topic Sentence | A sentence that states the main idea of the paragraph. |
| Valid | Correct, acceptable. |
| Verb | A word that shows action or being. |
| Voice | To express a choice or opinion. |
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