Plot
Main Idea
Types of stories
Characters
Text Features
100
Normally these are people or animals

Characters

100

In order to find information you need to ask yourself this question (Hint:  It is not about a fox?)

What does the text say?

100

This type of story usually has animals as characters provides some lesson to be learned.

Fable

100

Authors use these to show that a character is speaking

Quotation Marks

100

This text feature is usually underneath a photograph

Caption

200

This is where the story takes place

Setting
200

This can be called the central message, most important idea or big idea

Main idea

200

This type of story is passed down from generation to generation.  Anansi the Spider is this type of story.

Folktale

200

This is the name for words spoken by characters 

Dialogue

200

This part of a book, normally at the beginning, tells the different sections of a book and what pages they begin on.  These "sections" are normally headings.

Table of contents

300

The setting has these two parts

Time and place

300

These kind of details help a reader learn new information about the main idea

Supporting details
300

Sometimes the lesson learned in a story is also called this

Moral

300

You can learn a character's point of ______ by reading the words they say.

View

300

This part of the book is usually at the end.  It lists all of the keywords in a book and the pages that you can find them on.

Index

400

Everything that happens in a story is called this

Plot

400

An author will often use these to support his or her specific points in a text.

Facts and/or details

400

We compared and __________ different versions of Cinderella this year to understand to understand how different cultures had different versions of the same story.

Contrasted

400

When an author writes a story that is about made up characters, but the story could happen in real life, it is this kind of story.

Realistic fiction

400

The other name for a picture

Photograph

500

This part of the story concludes the action

Ending

500

You can ask and answer these to help yourself understand the main idea of a passage?

Questions
500

When reading different types of stories you can make _______________ about what kind of text or story it will be by using everything you notice in the pictures.

Predictions

500

Characters respond to events in different ways which can affect how the ______ changes in the story.

Plot

500

These normally help you understand what a section will be about.  They help you know where to look when you are trying to find out what the text says.

Headings

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