Vocab words
What does main idea mean?
What a story or paragraph is mostly about.
What is a theme?
The life lesson or moral of a story.
What five questions should a good summary answer?
Who, What, When, Where, and Why.
What two main parts make up a sentence?
The subject and the predicate.
Q: What pronouns are used in first person point of view?
A: I, me, my, and we.
What is a summary?
A short version of a story that tells what happened.
Can a theme statement include names or pronouns?
No, it must apply to anyone, anywhere, at any time.
Should a summary include opinions?
No, summaries must be objective and only include facts.
What does the subject tell?
Who or what the sentence is about.
Q: What does the reader know in first person point of view?
A: Only what the narrator thinks and feels.
What is plot?
The events that happen in a story from beginning to end.
What question can help you find the theme?
“What is the author trying to teach me?”
What must a summary include besides main events?
The problem and solution.
What does the predicate tell?
What the subject is or what the subject is doing.
Q: What pronouns are used in third person limited?
A: He, she, or they.
What is point of view?
The perspective from which a story is told.
What is a theme statement?
A sentence that expresses the lesson or message the story teaches; it’s more than one word.
What is the main purpose of a summary?
To briefly tell what happened in a story.
What is a fragment?
An incomplete sentence missing a subject or predicate.
Q: What does the reader know in third person limited?
A: The thoughts and feelings of one character.
What does it mean to make an inference?
To make an educated guess using what you already know and evidence from the story.
Give an example of a theme statement.
Showing kindness can inspire others to be kind.
Answers Vary
In what order should events be told in a summary?
In the correct order from beginning to end.
What makes a complete sentence?
A capital letter, subject, predicate, punctuation, and a complete thought.
Q: What makes third person omniscient different from third person limited?
A: The narrator knows what all characters think and feel.