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| setting | Is the time and place in which a story occurs. Sometimes the setting is important part of a story. |
| squence | The order in which things happen. Can also mean steps we follow to do something. |
| cause | Is why something happended. |
| effect | is what happened because of what was done. |
| compare | Is to tell how things are the same. |
| contrast | Is to tell how things are different. |
| Author's Purpose | The reason or reasons an author has for writing a story. |
| entertain | To tell you an exciting story. |
| inform | To tell you about a specific topic |
| persuade | To tell you an author wants you to do something. |
| express | To tell you how an author feels. |
| fact | What can be proven true. |
| opinion | Tells how you feel about something. Can not be proven true or false. |
| outline | A statement summarizing the important points of a text. |
| character | Are the people or animals in a story or nonfictional article. |
| theme | Is the underlying meaning of a story. A big idea that stands out on its own outside of the story. |
| visualizing | To form a mental image (picture) as you read. |
| making judgments | Thinking about and deciding how to react toward people, situations, and the ideas in stories and articles that you read. |
| text structure | Is the way a piece of writing is organized. |
| fiction | Tells stories of imaginary people and events. |
| non-fiction | Tells stories of real people and events or tells information about the real world. |
| context clues | To use words around a word to find out the meaning of the word you do not know. |
| main idea | Is the most important idea about the topic. |
| topic | Tells what a paragraph or article is all about. |
| supporting details | Are small pieces of information that tell more about the main idea. |
| drawing conclusion | To figure out things about people or animals and what they do. Also to come up with what you think happened. |
| generalizing | Is a broad statement or rule that applies to many examples. |
| valid generalization | Is supported by facts and knowledge. |
| faulty generalization | in not supported by facts and knowledge. |
| predicting | To tell what you think might happen next in a story or article based on what has already happened. |
| paraphrasing | Is explaining something in your own words. Is usually only of a small section of the story. |
| thesaurus | A book of synonyms, often including related and contrasting words and antonyms. |
| summarizing | Is a short statement, no more than a few sentences, that tells the main idea of a selection or story. |
| plot | A series of events that center on a problem, or conflict. |
| climax | Is the place where the action builds, and the conflict must be faced. |
| resolution | is where the conflict is solved. |
| conflict | Can be a problem between 2 people or groups, between a person and nature. |
| steps in a process | Is tell the order of steps to complete and action. |
| graphic source | Illustrations, charts, graphs, maps, diagrams, tables, lists, time lines and scale drawings. |
| chronological order | To put things in an order of how they happened in a story. |
