Forward Language Arts Vocab

What is the theme?

• facts or information

• a central, big idea

• the first sentence of a story

• a summary of the story

What is the message?

• what the author wants us to learn

• retelling the story

• a central, big idea

• the last paragraph in a story

Claim

• a conclusion

• a question you have about a story

• facts

• to state something, what you are saying

Evidence

• summarizing the story

• facts or information, proof

• your opinion about a story

• rewriting an idea in your own words

Analyze

• only looking at the pictures in a story

• quickly reading the story

• looking something over with detail

• drawing a picture of the story

Stanza

• a group of lines

• the entire poem

• the title of a poem

• your favorite part of the poem

Verse

• the title of the a poem

• the third line of a poem

• the first line of a poem

• The entire poem

Folktale

• a story that gets passed down from generation to generation

• a story that gives plants and animals human characteristics

• a story that contains comparisons using "like" or "as"

• a story that contains a comparison of two different things

Fable

• A story that gets passed down from generation to generation

• A central, big idea from a story

• A story that gives animals or plants human characteristics and teaches a lesson

• To look something over with great detail

Type at least 3 transition words you could use in your writing