| A | B |
|---|
| Fable | When animals act and talk like people. Teaches a lesson. |
| Fairy Tale | Starts with "Once Upon a Time" |
| Biography | a story of a person's life written by someone else |
| Autobiography | a story of a person's life written by that person |
| Myth | Stories about Gods and Goddesses. |
| contractions | two words put together, the second word is shortened with an apostrophe |
| compound words | two words put together to make one word |
| sequence | the order of something |
| prediction | what will happen next? |
| dictionary | where you find the meaning of a word |
| thesaurus | where you find antonyms and synonyms |
| atlas | book of maps |
| encyclopedia | book of information |
| root word | base word |
| Reasons why authors write | entertain, inform, persuade |
| main idea | heart of the story, what is the story mostly about? |
| fantasy | a story about something that could never happen |
| realistic story | story about something that could happen |
| legend | a story handed down from one generation to another |
