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| biography | An account of the series of events making up a person's life. |
| categorize | To group or classify objects or events based on logical characteristics |
| cause | Something that makes something else happen. |
| content | The main purpose in written communication |
| effect | Something that happens as a result of a cause. |
| fact | Something that has really happened or that really exists. |
| fantasy | A story with very strange character, places, or events. Some examples are,fairy tales, fables, tall tales,and legends. |
| fiction | A literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact. |
| genre | A division or type of literature; 3 main types are: poetry, prose, and drama |
| graphic | Lifelike, vivid; of or about the pictorial arts (painting, drawing, etc.) |
| heading | The beginning part of a letter giving the sender's name, street address, city, state, and zip code. |
| historical fiction | Fiction story that is mixed with facts and is based on a real place and time in history. |
| informational text | One kind of nonfiction. Writing that conveys facts and information without introducing personal opinion. |
| literature | The books, poetry, stories and plays written by people to share ideas. |
| nonfiction | A book or article based on documented fact. |
| novel | a long story; a book that tells a made-up story |
| paraphrase | Taking a written sentence, paragraph, or story and putting it into your own words. |
| poetry | Literature in metrical form, may rhyme |
| predict | To tell in advance what one believes will happen. |
| prioritize | Put things in the order of their importance. |
| purpose | The reason why an author may write a story or selection; the reason why you read a selection |
| reality | Event that happens for real, a true event |
| text | The words that you read or write; the main section of something you are reading. |
| text organizer | A visual and graphic display that depicts the relationships between facts, terms, and or ideas within a learning task. |
| type | To print with a pencil or computer |
