| A | B |
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| Realistic fiction is | made-up story that takes place in modern times. The events in realistic fiction can happen in real life |
| Historical fiction | made-up story set in the past. It is based on real historical events or people |
| Nonfiction, or informational text | facts and true information. It is NOT made-up |
| Fantasy | any story that has unreal parts. It has events that cannot happen in real life |
| Some writing describes something or how to do something. | Some writing describes something or how to do something. |
| Inform | Some writing has the purpose of informing. Most news articles in the newspaper are written to inform |
| Persuade | Some writing is written for the purpose of persuasion |
| Narrate | Narration has the purpose of telling a story |
| Entertain | Some writing has the purpose of entertaining. The comic strips in the newspaper are there to entertain the readers with humor |
| plot | what happens in a story |
| plot | also the order in which the author puts the events in a story |
| problem / conflict | a struggle that a character has to work through or solve |
| solution / resolution | how the character solves or fixes the problem |
| To compare two things | show how they are similar |
| To contrast two things | show the differences between two things |
| Inferences and conclusions | look carefully and find clues in the story |
| Inferences and conclusions | special kinds of guesses |
| Inferences and conclusions | you have to use your knowledge of real life to make guesses |
| summarize | retell it in a much shorter form. |
| summarize | the most important ideas and events in a story |
| summarize | not all the details found in the original story |
| cause | why something happens |
| effect | what happens because of that cause. |
| cause-and-effect | Because, since, so, and as a result |
