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Picture books

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Written works exclusively for children

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Poetry

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Rhythmic expression of imaginative thought

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Folklore

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Traditional stories, myths, legends, nursery rhyme, and songs of the past

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Fantasy

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Make believe about places and creatures that do not exist

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Science fiction

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Based on extending physical laws and scientific principle to their logical outcomes. Stories that might occur in the future

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Realistic fiction

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What if stories
Illusional of reality
The events could happen
Characters seem real 
Contemporary setting
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Historical fiction

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Set In the past and it could have happened

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Biography

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Plot and theme based on a persons life

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Non fiction

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Facts about the real world

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Lime Rick

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5 line poem
Lines 1+2 end with the same rhyme
Lines 3+4 end with The same rhyme
Last line ends with same rhyme as 1+2

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Haiku

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From Japan
First line has 5 syllables
Second line has 7 syllables
Last line has 5 syllables

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Folk tales

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Stories passed down through generation 
Legends
Myths
Fairytales
Nursery rhymes
Tall tales
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Shel Silverstein

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Poet known for where’s the side walk ends and the giving tree

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Metaphor

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Compares without using like or as

Example - her heart is made of gold

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Simile

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Compares using like or as

Example - joe was as busy as a bee

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Hyperbole

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Extreme exaggeration

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Alliteration

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1st sounds repeat

Dexter digging down in the dirt

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Personification

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Giving animals or objects human characteristics

Example - the stars danced in the night

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Mood

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The way the someone feels about the content they are reading

Emotional setting that is created by setting, imagery, and diction

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Tone

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The attitude of the author toward the subject

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Idiom

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Phrases that present figurative, non literal meaning attached to a phrase
Ex - it’s raining cats and dogs

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Noun

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Person place or a thing

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Pronouns

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Word that replaces a noun

Example - he she they that is them etc

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Verb

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Action Words

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Adjective

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Describing words

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Adverbs

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Describes a verb or adjective. It tells us how where when how much and how often

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Conjunction

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A word that connects two words to avoid sounding like your talking in bullet points
Example - because, although, but, unlike, therefore, so, if etc

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Sentence

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A group of words that expresses a though

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Subject and predicate

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Subject - Whom and what the sentence is about
Predicate - what the subject is or does

Example: the house is blue
The house is the subject
Is blue is the predicate

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Declarative sentence

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Most common type of sentence 
It doesn’t ask a question
It doesn’t give demands 
Statements
“ we own a cat “
“ this is my favorite movie “
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Interrogative sentence

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It asks questions

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Exclamatory sentences

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It uses exclamations

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Imperative sentence

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Gives commands

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Narrative

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Writing characterized by a main character in a setting who encounters a problem or engages in an interesting or entertaining activity
Who what when where why

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Persuasive

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Writing Where the Arthur tries to convince the reader of their point of view

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Expository

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Exposes facts

  1. Cause and effect
  2. Compare and contrast
  3. Sequence of time line
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Spelling rules

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I before e except after c

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Acronyms

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Example (fbi) stands for federal bureau of investigation

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Novel characteristics

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Always fiction , chapter books

40
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What kind of book is Little house on the prairie?

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Realistic fiction and a memoir

41
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Both dream worlds in Peter Pan and the taking animals in the wind of the willows represents characteristic aspects of which genre?

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Fantasy - suspension of disbelief

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Magical realism

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Uses narrative technique that blurs the distinction between reality and fantasy and is characterized by an equal acceptance of the ordinary and the extraordinary. Magic and reality are not distinguished

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Well known magic realism books

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One hundred years of solitude by Gabriel

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Fairytale (characters, setting, problem, solution)

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Characters - royalty animals
Setting - castle forest
problem - good vs evil
Solution - magic, lived happily ever after etc

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Fables (characters, setting, problem, solution)

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Characters - animals acting like people, usually 3 or less
Setting - generally outside somewhere
Problem - only one problem using trickery
Solution - ends with a lesson or moral

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Myths (characters, setting, problem, solution)

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Characters: gods and goddesses
Setting: nothing specific
Problem: explains something that happens in nature by using gods and goddesses
Solution: magic, sometimes teaches a lesson

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Legends (characters, setting, problem, solution)

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Character: everyday people or animals are often main characters
Setting: nothing specific
Problem: explains how or why something in nature came to be
Solution: sometimes it teaches a lesson

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Tall tales (characters, setting, problem, solution)

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Characters: everyday people with superhuman abilities
Setting: linked to a historical time period
Problem: usually solved in a humorous way
Solution: exaggerated details, tells their accomplishments

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Adage/ proverb

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Short common saying or phase that tends to be old known for decades and centuries
Ex: a penny saved is a penny earned

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Analogy

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A comparison of two things to show similarities or relationship
Example: finding my keys is like finding a needle in the hay stack
Or boy is to girl is like man is to woman

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Assonance

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Repition of vowel sounds
The light of the fire is a sight
Go slow over the road

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Idiom

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Widely known expressions that contain figurative meaning that is different from phrases literal meaning

Under the weather etc

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Onomatopoeia

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Meaning of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of The sound associated with it

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Oxymoron

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A contradiction in a group of words examples
She’s pretty ugly
The same difference

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Ode poem

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Written with excitement about a person or thing

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Elegy

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Written to mourn for the dead

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Ballad

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Poem, song narrative, story in short stanza, sonnet (rhyme and music)

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Free verse

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Shel Silverstein writes these types of poems

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Exposition writing

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Puts forward a particular argument or pov

60
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Books that foster understanding, sensitivity, tolerance of cultural differences

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Number stars by Lois Lowry
Call it courage by Armstrong sperry
Bud, not buddy by Christopher Curtis

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Formal writing

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Using words to make a point

Examples: Declaration of Independence, US constitution, bill of rights

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Venecular literature

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Speech of common people

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Morphemes

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Smallest meaning bearing units of language

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Morphology

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Study of the Structure of words

65
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If a student asks the meaning of a word, what’s the best way to advise them?

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Have the student use the dictionary to look up the word the;paraphrase the sentence using the dictionary definition.

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