| A | B |
|---|
| Selection | story |
| Statement | sentence |
| Summary/Summarizes | Tells the whole story in one sentence |
| Fact | True |
| Opinion | What someone thinks |
| Predict | Guess what will happen next based on the story |
| Experience | happening or event |
| Describes | Tells about |
| Effect | What happened because |
| Purpose | Reason |
| Setting | Time and place |
| Infer | Figure out |
| Compare | Tell how things are alike |
| Contrast | Tell how things are different |
| Sequence | Order |
| Simile | Comparing 3 things using like or as |
| Subheading | Tells the reader what a group of pages will be about |
| Graphic | Picture, map, drawing |
| Caption | desribes a graphic |
| Detail | A small piece |
| Personification | Giving human qualities to nonhuman things |
| Conclude | Figure out |
| Italics | Slanted letters |
| Main idea | Mostly about |
| Best supports | Explains |
| Best supported | True |
| Significance | Importance |
| Suggest | Hint at based on the story |
| Genre | Kind of story |
| Realistic fiction | Made up story that could really happen |
| Fantasy | Fiction story that could not possibly happen |
| Fiction | Not true |
| Historical fiction | A made up story that takes place in a real time in history |
| Traditional | Old fiction story passed down for many years |
| Science fiction | Made up story that uses science or technology |
| Informational | Gives facts |
| Biography | True story about a real person |
| Autobiography | True story about a real person's life written by that person |
| Similar | alike |
| Mood | feeling |
| Another/good/best title | Mostly about |
| 1st person | Uses I or we to tell the story |
| 2nd person | Uses you to tell the story |
| 3rd person | Uses he, she, they, it to tell the story |
| Affect | Change |
| Result | what happened because |
| Metaphor | uses is/are was/were to compare 2 things |
| characteristic | detail |
| Onomatopoeia | a word that makes the sound of the sound described |
| Purpose | reason |
| best show | prove |
| visual | picture |
| refer to | talks about |
| most likely write | mostly about |
| setting | place and time |
| similar to | like |
| tone | feeling |
| narrator | person telling the story |
| evidence shows | proves |
| result of | happened because of |
| definition | meaning |
| prediction | what will happen based on what has already happened |
| folktale | a story passed down from person to person |
| fable | a story with talking animals that teaches a lesson |
| fiction | not true |
| persuade | to talk into |
| conclude | figure out |
| nonfiction | true; informational |
| theme | lesson that the story teachers the reader |
| stanza | a group of lines from a poem |
| emphasize | give importance to |
| italics | slanted type |
| characteristic | special quality or detail |
| relationship | connection |
| organized | put together in a pattern |
| trait | special quality |
| personification | giving human qualities to something that is not human |
| diagram | drawing with information on it |
| expresses | shows |
| arrangement | layout |
| emotion | feelings |
