Lesson Design Vocabulary #2

text structures

• to take what someone else has written or said and put it into your own words

• in literature: the perspective from which a story is told (1st person, 2nd person, 3rd person)

• the way an author organizes the information in a text (ex. compare/contrast, chronological order, cause/effect, descriptive, problem/solution

• the turning point (the greatest point of interest) of a story when the main character’s problem begins to be solved or resolved

Paraphrase

• to take what someone else has written or said and put it into your own words

• the background information on the characters and setting explained at the beginning of the story

• the events after the climax where the characters are working to resolve the conflict

  
  

• true events and informational

point of view

• category/style/ype of book (ex. mystery, realistic fiction, sci-fi, etc.)

• Stories that come from an author’s imagination; made up; not real

• in literature: the perspective from which a story is told (1st person, 2nd person, 3rd person)

• the turning point (the greatest point of interest) of a story when the main character’s problem begins to be solved or resolved

exposition

• the related series of events that build toward the greatest point of interest

• the background information on the characters and setting explained at the beginning of the story

  
  

• the turning point (the greatest point of interest) of a story when the main character’s problem begins to be solved or resolved

• the end of the story where the conflict is resolved or worked out

Rising Action

• the related series of events that build toward the greatest point of interest

• the end of the story where the conflict is resolved or worked out

• the events after the climax where the characters are working to resolve the conflict

  
  

• the turning point (the greatest point of interest) of a story when the main character’s problem begins to be solved or resolved

climax

• the events after the climax where the characters are working to resolve the conflict

• the background information on the characters and setting explained at the beginning of the story

• the end of the story where the conflict is resolved or worked out

• the turning point (the greatest point of interest) of a story when the main character’s problem begins to be solved or resolved

falling action

• the events after the climax where the characters are working to resolve the conflict

• the end of the story where the conflict is resolved or worked out

• the background information on the characters and setting explained at the beginning of the story

• the turning point (the greatest point of interest) of a story when the main character’s problem begins to be solved or resolved

resolution

• the background information on the characters and setting explained at the beginning of the story

• the end of the story where the conflict is resolved or worked out

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  the events after the climax where the characters are working to resolve the conflict

  
  

• the turning point (the greatest point of interest) of a story when the main character’s problem begins to be solved or resolved

fiction

• the end of the story where the conflict is resolved or worked out

• a brief statement that gives the most important information (main ideas) about something. (ex. You can summarize a book, chapter, section, article, movie, play, etc.)

• Stories that come from an author’s imagination; made up; not real

  
  

• category/style/ype of book (ex. mystery, realistic fiction, sci-fi, etc.)

  
  

nonfiction

• true events and informational

• Stories that come from an author’s imagination; made up; not real

• category/style/ype of book (ex. mystery, realistic fiction, sci-fi, etc.)

• a brief statement that gives the most important information (main ideas) about something. (ex. You can summarize a book, chapter, section, article, movie, play, etc.)