CompareContrast
Characters
Narratives
Sequencing
Tall Tales
100
These are three different ways to compare and contrast topics or characters visually.
What are the Venn diagram, the t-chart, and the flow chart?
100
Characters tend to change over this in a story.
What is time?
100
This is the first thing a good narrative must have to interest its readers.
What is a hook?
100
These are the transition words to use when sequencing events.
What are first, next, then and finally?
100
A tall tale is a story in which the truth has been what?
What is stretched or embellished?
200
Like, similar, also, too, alike, in common are words that signal this.
What is comparing, compare, comparison?
200
We call the physical and personality qualities of a character these.
What are character traits or traits?
200
A good author will use these types of words to link the parts of their narrative together.
What are transition words?
200
We do this to help us retell the major events from a story in the order the occurred.
What is sequencing?
200
If a reader were to look at how Paul Bunyan and Mike Fink are similar, they would be doing this with them.
What is comparing?
300
Unlike, different, dissimilar, not like are all examples off words we might use when doing this with characters.
What is contrast or contrasting?
300
We can learn a lot about a story and it's characters by doing this with two or more of its characters.
What is to compare and contrast characters?
300
If is important to use this type of language when writing a narrative.
What is descriptive language?
300
We use sequencing to retell or explain something in the _____ that it happened.
What is order?
300
If someone were to look at how Paul Bunyan were different from Mike Fink, they would be doing this with them.
What is contrasting?
400
We can use these two things about a character when comparing/contrasting characters.
What is use a character's physical and personality traits?
400
We can identify a character's traits in a story by paying attention to these two things.
What is action and dialogue or what a character does and what they say?
400
The main purpose of a narrative (fictional or personal) is to do this.
What is to tell a story?
400
These are other words we can use to help our writing stay connected during transitions.
What are meanwhile, however, on the other hand, but?
400
The main purpose of a tall tale is to do this to their readers.
What is to entertain?
500
It is very important to do this when comparing and contrasting two characters in a story.
What is use examples from the story?
500
Using "right there details" about a character and combining it with your own prior knowledge to form an idea about that character is to do this.
What is inferring or infer or inference?
500
Most narratives have a hook, sequential events, good dialogue,vivid characters and these two other things.
What is a problem and a solution?
500
When retelling how and when a series of events happened over the course of time, it is referred to as this type of sequencing.
What is chronological?
500
"The Bunyans" by Audrey Wood is a tall tale that could best be described as this type of narrative.
What is fictional?
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