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| The organizational pattern of the text. |
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| Problem/Solution Text Structure |
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| The text identifies and describes a problem and then offers one or more possible solutions. |
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| Cause and Effect Text Structure |
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| Events in a story that tell something happened and the result of it happening. |
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| Compare/Contrast Text Structure |
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| The text compares what is similar and different. |
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| Descriptive Text Structure |
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| Provides details that tell more about someone, someplace or something. |
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| A short statement that retells the main idea and important events or details. |
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| The type of text and author has written. |
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| First person point of view |
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| The narrator is telling the story and uses pronouns like: i, me, my, we, and our. The reader knows the narrators thoughts and feelings only. |
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| A personal story often written to entertain. |
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| The rising action of the story |
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| To interrupt what's going on in a story to tell about something that has happened in the past. |
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| Author's purpose in writing a fiction story |
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| To entertain the reader with characters and plot. |
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| A word that means the same or nearly the same as another word. |
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| A word that means the opposite of a word. |
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| A word that sounds the same but has a different spelling and meaning. |
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| A good guess based on information you already know or have read in the text. |
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| The text gives information needed to perform a task. |
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| The special ways authors present information to help readers better understand the material. |
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| The most important thing the author wants the reader to know about the passage. |
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| Using details from the reading passage and background knowledge to answer questions. |
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| Use the words of famous people to support a product or an idea. |
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| When the other side's point of view is offered and then criticized. |
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| Presenting a positive image or idea to try and make you feel the same way about something else. |
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| Convincing people to do something by telling them that other people are doing it. |
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| A widely believed but untrue image of a group or individual to make a point. |
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| An overstatement, or exaggeration. |
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| Giving human qualities to a non-human, such as an animal, or object. |
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| A comparison that does not use the words like or as. |
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| A comparison that uses the words like or as |
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| A phrase that has a special meaning that is different from the individual words mean. |
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| A word part that can be added either to the beginning or the end of a word. |
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| When the author uses a word with the opposite meaning to give hints about the unknown word. |
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| Definitional Context Clue |
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| A definition of an unfamiliar word found in the sentence. |
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| Repetition of vowel sounds at the beginning, middle and end of a word. |
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| Pattern of stresses or beats in a line of poetry. |
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| Repetition of sound at the beginning of a word. |
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| To describe in detail the settings and characters. |
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| To use words to imitate sounds. |
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| To have the characters speak. |
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