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 * Cause and Effect:** Cause statements stem from actions and events, and effects are what happen as a result of the action or event.


 * Character** - a fictional person who acts, appears, or is referred to in a text.


 * Characterization:** The method an author uses to reveal characters and their various personalities.


 * Climax:** The turning point in a narrative, the moment when the conflict is at its most intense. Typically, the structure of stories, novels and plays is one of rising action, in which tension builds to the climax.


 * Comment:** Offer statements on something


 * Compare:** Placing together characters, situations or ideas to show common or differing features.


 * Compound Word:** A word composed of two or more smaller words, the definition of which is a combination of the definitions of the smaller words (e.g., wallpaper).


 * Conclusion:** The ending of the story or the summarization of ideas or closing argument in nonfictional texts.


 * Conflict/Problem:** A struggle or clash between opposing characters, forces, or emotions.


 * Content Specific Words:** Core vocabulary that is peculiar to an academic discipline or subject. For example, the word precipitation is related to the discipline of science as it relates to weather.


 * Context Clues:** Information from the reading that identifies a word or group of words.

Conventions of Language : Mechanics, usage and sentence completeness.

 * Critique:** Make informed and discriminating judgments.