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| means putting what you have read into your own words. You paraphrase by reading something, thinking about what it means, and then restating it in your own words. |
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| to pick out the main idea of a story, so that we can remember and understand the information easier. |
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| a word having the same or almost the same meaning as another word (for example, "huge" and "enormous" are synonyms). |
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| a word of opposite meaning (for example, "hot" and "cold" are antonyms). |
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| is the order in which events [in the story] take place. For example, the sequence of events for the life cycle of a house fly is: the eggs grow into a larva, then the larva becomes a pupa, and finally it emerges as a house fly. |
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| an event or action that causes something else to happen. |
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| an event or action that happened as a result of another event or action. |
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| break something down into parts and explain the different parts. |
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| words that provide a signal to the reader or listener about what is coming next in the writing (for example, the words: besides, furthermore, in addition, indeed, in fact, second...third..., etc.). |
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| ability to think and express yourself in a clear manner. |
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| categories or kinds of stories and books. Some common ones are: adventure, biographies, poetry, science fiction, horror, mystery, fantasy, etc. |
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| the choice of words that are used in speech or writing. |
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| a type of writing that tells a story. |
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| the speaker or character who is telling the story. |
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| the perspective or viewpoint from which a story is told. |
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| the point of view in which the narrator character in the story using pronouns such as "I" and "we" to tell what he or she sees and knows. |
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| the point of view, the narrator is someone outside the story using pronouns such as "he," "she," or "they" to tell the story. |
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| a first-person story describing something that happened to the narrator. It is usually a true story and includes the author's feelings about the experience and what he or she learned |
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| when the author uses words and details that appeal to a reader’s senses, such as: sight, touch, taste, hearing, smell, and emotion. |
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