Story Elements
3rd Grade Reading
Poetry
Genre
3rd Grade Grammar
100

This is when/where the story takes place.

The setting

100

What is personification? 

Giving human qualities to things and ideas that are not humans.

100

This type of poetry has a syllable pattern of 5,7,5. 

Haiku

100

This type of story includes real events from a person's life, but it's written by someone else. 

Biography

100

This part of speech is a person, place, thing.

A noun

200

What does chronological order mean? 

When the order of events that happen from first to last. 

200

What does it mean to "use context clues" to determine what something means?

Use surrounding details from the text to understand what you're reading. 

200

Onomatopoeia is one element used in poetry. What is onomatopoeia? Can you give an example? 

Sound words

200

What is the author's reason for writing a story or poem?

examples: describe, entertain, persuade, give information


Author's purpose

200

This part of speech is an action word.

A verb.

300

The series of events in a story from beginning to end.

The plot.

300

A group of lines in a poem that the author uses to keep topics together.

What is a stanza?

300

What two words compare and contrast to unalike things?

Metaphor and simile

300

Give 3 examples of text features

Bold print/vocabulary terms, glossary, pictures, captions, headings, graphs/tables/diagrams, bullet points, etc.

300

This part of speech describes a noun or pronoun.

Ex:  The pretty girl played with the small cat.

An adjective

400

What point of view is a text that uses: I, me, my, we, us

First Person Point of View

400
What genre is a story about a real place and real characters.

non-fiction

400

Which type of poetry has a rhyming patter of AABBA? 

Limerick

400

This is what the story is mostly about?

Main Idea

400

What is the adverb in this sentence?

I was feeling hungry, so I quickly made myself a delicious sandwich.

quickly

500

Words that have the same or similar meaning are called?

Synonyms

500

What type of poem has no structure?

A free verse
500

List an element of poetry we haven't talked about yet today! 

figurative language, free verse, simile, metaphor, idioms, etc. 

500

Compare and Contrast

Sequence of Events

Problem and Resolution

Description

Cause and Effect

These are a few examples of?

Text Structure

500

These phrases are examples of what?

The wind howled at night. The book was so popular it flew off the shelves. The last piece of pie was calling my name.

Personification - giving human qualities to things and ideas that are not humans.

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