Key Reading Terms/ Practices

What the story is about in one sentence

• main idea

• genres

• text structures

• connotation

Dictionary definition of a word

• connotation

• denotation

• context clues

• genres

YOUR definition of a word

• connotation

• denotation

• main idea

• text structure

How a piece of writing is set up (compare/contrast, problem/solution, cause/effect, sequence)

• genres

• denotation

• connotation

• text structure

Using words around an unknown word to find out the meaning of that word.

• non-fiction

• connotation

• context clues

• genres

REAL writing (the writing is about real events/people)

• fiction

• non-fiction

• compare and contrast

• genres

FAKE writing (the writing is about something made up)

• fiction

• non-fiction

• connotation

• denotation

Categories of reading and writing (non-fiction, fiction, poetry, drama)

• fiction

• non-fiction

• genres

• main idea

Similarities and differences between two subjects

• genres

• main idea

• context clues

• compare and contrast