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What is Setting?
The place where a story is set. It describes the background.
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What is Read in Order?
The directions in which a story is read.
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What is Table of Contents?
A list, usually found on a page before the start of a written work, of its chapter or section titles or brief descriptions with their commencing page numbers.
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What is a Photograph?
A picture taken with a camera to show the reader exactly what something looks like.
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What is Plot?
The main part of a story, or the place where the problem is presented.
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What is the Beginning, the Middle and the End?
The three sections of a story.
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What is Glossary?
An alphabetical list of terms that appears at the end of a book and includes terms within that book that are either newly introduced, uncommon, or specialized?
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What is Can be read in any order?
A description of in which order a non-fiction book can be read.
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What is a Character?
A person, animal or figure represented in a literary work.
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What is Reader may need to make inferences for information?
An idea or conclusion that is drawn from evidence and reasoning.
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What is an Index?
a road map to the book, listing names, places, and things in alphabetical order and giving the page numbers associated with each topic typically found in the back of the book?
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What is Read to Inform?
When a reader is reading information to learn something new, to be better informed about a topic or to try and find a solution.
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What is Illustrations?
The drawings, paintings or pictures that are used to support the story.
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What is Read to Entertain?
The idea of reading a story to have an experience, to have an adventure, or to walk in another's shoes.
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What is Bold Print?
A print that is darker or brighter than the rest of the sentence. Authors use this print to signal important information or new words.
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What is Supporting Details?
Additional information that explains, defines or proves a big idea.
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What is Storyline?
The plot of a novel, play, movie or other narrative.
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What is Real or Fake?
The characteristics that are used to describe a made-up or a true story.
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What is a Caption?
A heading or title, or words that communicate what is being said.
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What is a Main Idea?
A big idea that the writer wants me to understand about the topic of the text—an idea is a way of thinking about a topic.
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