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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Multiple Choice | This is when you have a question and 4 answers to choose from. Select the best answer. |
| Select 2 | You’ll have to choose two answers instead of just one. So, there will be a question and you will pick the two answers that make the most sense. |
| Part A/Part B | First, you’ll answer part A. Then, you’ll answer part B. Part A will be your main answer. Part B will be your text evidence. |
| Table Match | A table match is when you look at a chart or table and find information that goes together, like matching a question to the correct answer in the table. |
| Select the Sentence | Read the passage, then you will select the sentence from the text that answers the question. |
| Character Development | How the character changes or grows throughout the story |
| Traits | Describe a character’s qualities (both good and bad) and are often labeled with adjectives. Ex. patient, lazy, honest |
| Feelings | Temporary, based on the environment. Ex. hopeful, bored, scared, amused |
| Motivation | The reason for a character’s thoughts, feelings, and actions. Ex. peer pressure, anger, love |
| Narrator’s Point of View | the type of narration used (as in first-, second-, or third-person narration); a way of looking at or thinking about something |
| Theme | The underlying message or big idea the author wants the reader to take away |
| Character Perspective | a character’s attitude or feelings towards something or someone in the story |
| Text Features | Features that authors include to support information in the text or provide new information. Ex. maps, headings, timelines, photographs |
| Problem/Solution | A text structure that shows different problems and then how the problem is solved |
| Sequence | A text structure that shows a series of related things or events, or the order in which things or events follow each other |
| Description | A text structure that describes or explains a topic, idea, person, place, or thing to give the reader a mental picture |
| Central Idea | The most important thing an author wants you to know about a topic |
| Relevant Details | Details that directly support the central idea |
| Author’s Purpose | The author’s reason for writing the text |
| Author’s Perspective | in informational text, the author’s attitude toward a topic or subject |
| Summary | a shortened version of a reading that includes only the most important points |
| Author’s Claim | What the author thinks or feels about a topic supported by reasons |
| Figurative Language | phrases that mean something other than their literal meaning |
| Simile | Compares words or phrases using like or as. Ex. She’s as quiet as a mouse. |
| Metaphor | Compares two things by saying one thing is another. Ex. My brother is a pig. |
| Hyperbole | an extreme exaggeration. Ex. I am freezing cold. |
| Idiom | phrases that mean something completely different from their literal meaning. Ex. The shoes cost an arm and a leg. |
| Alliteration | repetition of sounds at the beginning of words. Ex. The whispering winds whistled through the trees. |
| Personification | giving an animal or object a human like trait. Ex. Time flies when you’re having fun. |
| Compare | to find what is the same |
| Contrast | to find what is different |
| Context Clues | hints the author gives to help determine the meaning of unknown words or phrases |
| Free Verse | no set meter or rhyme scheme sounds like someone is talking The sun dips low, Casting a golden glow across the sky. Birds sing their last song of the day, And the world feels still, As if holding its breath, Waiting for night. |
| Limerick | 5 lines and AABBA rhyme patterns usually funny or silly There once was a cat from Peru, Who dreamt of eating a shoe. It chewed on a lace, Then got stuck in a case, And now it just naps all day too! |
| Haiku | 3 lines 5, 7, 5 syllable pattern (17 syllables total) about nature Soft rain on the leaves, Whispers of the breeze at dusk, Nature’s quiet song. |
| Rhymed Verse | consistent pattern of rhymes written in lines and stanzas The moonlight dances on the sea, A silver path so wild and free. The waves they whisper, soft and slow, A secret only night can know. Beneath the stars, so bright and high, The world sleeps |