Story Elements
This is when and where the story takes place.
What is setting?
The story is about imaginary places
What is fiction?
Feature that help us learn where things are located in the world.
What is a map?
The definition of reunion.
What is people coming together after a long time?
Someone took a cookie from the cookie jar. The lid was off the jar. Crumbs were on the table. Who ate a cookie? Mrs. Baker will find out!
Someone stole a cookie.
The “what happened” in the story, or the sequence of events.
What is the plot?
It's always about real places or events and gives dates when events happened.
What is non-fiction?
Feature that helps the reader understand the definitions of important words.
What is the glossary?
The definition of migrate.
What is moving from one place to another based on the seasons?
Cinderella and Snow White aren't the only fairy tales ever told. The library has different fairy tales from all around the world! There you can find fairy tales from other countries such as Russia, China, Sweden, and Africa. You won't believe all the different stories!
The library has fairy tales from all around the world.
A person, animal, or object that plays an important role in the plot.
What is the characters?
A story about a person's life written by that person.
What is an autobiography?
Feature that tell the main ideas and what pages they are on.
What is table of contents?
What not expected to happen?
Polar bears live in the Arctic. That is the area around the North Pole. They live in the coast and on islands. They also live on pack ice and in the water. Pack ice is their favorite place to live. That is because it is the perfect location for their favorite activity. It is the perfect place to hunt seals.
Polar bears live in the Arctic.
A challenge or conflict the characters face
What is problem?
A story about a person's life written by someone else.
What is a biography?
Words under a picture that tells you about about the picture.
What is caption?
The definition of drowsy.
What is feeling tired?
Ann used her chalk to draw lines on the sidewalk. She marked them into blocks. Then she put numbers in the blocks. She played hopscotch on the sidewalk.
Ann played hopscotch on the sidewalk.
How the conflict or challenge in the story is resolved.
What is solution?
An old story that has a moral and the main characters are usually animals.
What is a fable?
Feature that is an alphabetical listing of items covered in the book and their page numbers.
What is the index?
The definition of absorb.
What is soaking up?
I can't wait until Saturday. We are going to a party. It is a family reunion. I have a big family. So, there will be a lot of people there. My grandparents will be there. Four aunts and uncles will be there, too. I have twelve cousins and ten can make it. We will have a ball playing while the adults eat. There is always great food. Everyone brings something to share.
We are going to a party. It is a family reunion.