Story Elements
This is when/where the story takes place.
The setting
This is where a story takes place.
What is the setting.
What is the story of King Midas and the Golden Touch.
This type of story includes real events from a person's life, but it's written by someone else.
Biography
This part of speech is a person, place, thing.
A noun
What does chronological order mean?
When the order of events that happen from first to last.
What does it mean to "use context clues" to determine what something means?
Use surrounding details from the text to understand what you're reading.
This story is about a young boy in Mexico who's magic shoes help him win a basket ball game.
What is Bravo Tavo.
This kind of story tells a lesson or moral, often involving talking animals.
This part of speech is an action word.
A verb.
The series of events in a story from beginning to end.
The plot.
What kind of text contains information that is real, or events that happened in real life?
What is non-fiction.
This story about an engineer and how he invented a new part to help trains run better.
What is the Story of Elijah McCoy.
Give 3 examples of text features
Bold print/vocabulary terms, glossary, pictures, captions, headings, graphs/tables/diagrams, bullet points, etc.
This part of speech describes a noun or pronoun.
Ex: The pretty girl played with the small cat.
An adjective
This kind of story has characters, plot, and setting.
What is a fiction or narrative story.
Happened in the past, real or fake characters, real or fake events, real setting
What is Martina the Beautiful Cockroach?
This is what the story is mostly about?
Main Idea
What is the adverb in this sentence?
I was feeling hungry, so I quickly made myself a delicious sandwich.
quickly
Words that have the same or similar meaning are called?
Synonyms
What type of story has magic, or elements that couldn't happen in real life?
In this story, a young girl learns that she has a talent as a stage manager and helps others through the school Talent Show
What is the Incredible Clementine?
These are the people that the story is about
Who are the characters in a story.
These phrases are examples of what?
The wind howled at night. The book was so popular it flew off the shelves. The last piece of pie was calling my name.
Personification - giving human qualities to things and ideas that are not humans.