Parts of Speech
This type of word DESCRIBES a person, place, or thing.
adjective
A type of story that is real and gives the reader factual information.
Find the verb in the following sentence: The girl caught the ball.
caught
Find the adjective in the following sentence: He walked on a stone wall.
stone
The person who wrote the story.
author
This type of word is a person, place, or thing that is specific and always capitalized.
proper noun
This genre includes stanzas and lines.
poetry, poems
Find the verb in the following sentence: When will the rain stop?
stop
ind the adjective in the following sentence: She wore a red sweater.
red
Where and when a story takes place.
setting
This type of word is when two words come together to form a new word with a new meaning.
compound word
This genre tends to use talking animals to teach a moral or lesson in a short story.
fable
Find the verbs in the following sentence: He stirred the batter and baked the cake.
stirred and baked
Find the adjectives in the following sentence: He bought three yellow bananas.
three and yellow
plot
This type of word DESCRIBES action words and typically ends in -ly.
adjective
This genre includes stories that are not true and are made up by the author.
fiction
Find the verbs in the following sentence: She skis down the hill and flies off the jump.
skis and flies
Find the adjectives in the following sentence: She picked up the orange and put it in the big, brown bin.
big and brown
main idea
This type of word is formed when combining two words with an apostrophe o make the word shorter.
contraction
This genre tries to explain things in nature.
myth
Find the verbs in the following sentence: We went to the store and bought lots of vegetables.
went and bought
Find the adjectives in the following sentence: The two sisters threw the giant ball to each other.
two and giant
the lesson the story teaches you
moral/central message