4th Grade
Story Elements
Story Elements
What is the setting of a story?
What is the time & place?
What does the beginning of every sentence need to start with?
What is a capital letter?
Where can you find the main idea of a paragraph?
What is at the beginning and sometimes at the end of a paragraph?
Find the Proper noun.
A.) girl
B.) Shelly
C.) blue
D.) shiny
What is B Shelly?
What is a simile?
What is a comparison using like or as?
What is another name for the problem of a story?
What is conflict?
What are the words in writing that guide us from one sentence/paragraph to another?
What are transition words?
Text structure that has order words like First, Next, and dates?
A Chronological
B Problem/Solution
C Compare/Contrast
What is A Chronological?
What is the problem and solution?
Sarah missed the bus. Her mom had to take her to school.
What is the Problem: Sarah missed the bus?
What is the Solution: Her mom had to take her to school?
Choose the hyperbole.
A.) The kite soared like an eagle.
B.) Bang went the hammer.
C.) The sun shines like a diamond.
D.) I'm drowning in homework.
What is D I'm drowning in homework?
What type of genre includes the supernatural like dragons and magic?
What is fantasy?
Ideally, how many sentences are in one paragraph?
What is about 5 sentences?
What does 'theme' mean?
What is the overall message or moral of the story?
What do the words compare and contrast mean?
Compare: What is the same/similar?
Contrast: What is difference?
What is Alliteration?
What is a phrase in which each word starts with the same letter/sound?
How do you know if a story is written in 3rd person Point of view?
What is contains the pronouns he/she/they?
What are the three most common examples of transition words?
What are First, next, Then? (accept any)
What is the difference between theme and topic?
What is theme is the lesson or moral learned by the characters and topic is the "what" the story is about?
Choose the Alliteration:
A). He is a cheetah.
B).The branches waved at me.
C). She is cool as a cumumber.
D). Allie Alligator Ate Apples Alongside Andy.
What is D Allie Alligator Ate Apples Along with Andy?
What is the difference between simile and metaphor?
What is a simile is a comparison that uses like or as and metaphor does not?
What does the story element "plot" mean?
What are the events in a story?
What is a verb?
What is a word describing an action?
Text structure that uses words similar, both, also, differences
A Chronological
B Problem/Solution
C Compare/Contrast
What is C Compare/Contrast
Choose the onomatopoeia:
A). Eat
B). Hop
C). Sizzle
D). Touch
What is C Sizzle?
What is personification?
What is giving non-living things humanlike qualities?
Which comes first in a story- the rising action or the climax?
What is rising action?
What is an example of a conclusion starter?
What is In conclusion, As you can see, Lastly?
What does it mean to infer?
A) Do eeny, meeny, miney moe
B) Use context clues to figure out the meaning
What is B Use context clues to figure out the meaning?
Example of adjective:
A). Truck
B). Yellow
C). Dog
D). Running
What is B Yellow?
What form of figurative language is the following phrase?
It's raining cats and dogs.
A.) Personification
B.) Idiom
C.) Metaphor
D.) Simile
What is B Idiom?