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26 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
Main Idea |
What the story is MOSTLY about |
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Key Details |
facts or details that support the main idea |
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character traits |
a word that is used to describe the character |
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central message |
the lesson the author wants to teach us |
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moral |
the lesson the author wants to teach us |
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theme |
the lesson the author wants to teach us |
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compare |
how events in the story are the SAME |
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contrast |
how the events in the story are DIFFERENT |
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sequence |
putting events in order |
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cause |
why it happened |
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effects |
what happened |
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sidebar |
a picture or graph that tells us more information about the topic |
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heading |
smaller "titles" in the story that tell us what that paragraph is going to be about |
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title |
letters at the top of the page that tell us what the WHOLE story is going to be about |
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key words |
bold words in the text that tell us to focus on important words |
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stanza |
paragraphs in a poem |
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scene |
a new chapter in a play |
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inference |
scheme + text evidence= |
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dialouge |
when a character is talking |
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conclusion |
guess or prediction |
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first person |
a character tells the story |
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third person |
a narrator tells the story |
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perspective/ point of view |
the way you see something |
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motivation |
what is pushing that character to do something |
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schema |
what you already know |
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setting |
where the story takes place |