Story Elements
Where and when a story takes place.
What is setting?
Either to inform, entertain, or persuade a reader.
What is author's purpose?
Text organized by dates or events in the order in which they occurred.
What is chronological order?
Words that have a similar meaning, such as happy and joyful, or mad and angry.
What are synonyms?
What are wear broccoli around his neck,
A brief, one sentence description of a story.
What is a plot?
Examples are side bars, photographs, captions, and graphs.
What are text features?
A step by step list or set of directions.
What is sequence?
What is a simile?
The two main characters of The Tiger Rising.
Who are Rob and Sistine?
Examples are kind, creative, and determined.
What are character traits?
A sentence that shares who + what and evidence to support your thinking.
What is a main idea with details?
Providing details about a subject.
What is description?
A comparison of two things stating how they are similar.
What is a metaphor?
The setting of the story with Annemarie and Ellen. Bonus for the title.
What is 1943 in Copenhagen, Denmark in Number the Stars.
The problem in the story.
What is conflict?
How nonfiction texts are organized.
What are text structures?
When a text includes how two topics or items are similar and different.
What is compare and contrast?
Words that are the opposite of one another, such as hot and cold, and right and wrong.
What are antonyms?
What are strong winds over 35mph, less than 1/4 mile visibility, and 3 hours or more of these conditions?
The lesson or moral of the story.
What is theme?
Identify this text feature: A page in the beginning of a book that tells the names of chapters or sections and what page to find them.
What is a table of contents?
When a text tells of an event or occurrence and then what happened after as a result.
What is cause and effect?
The rule to discover if a book is too hard based on unknown words.
What is the five finger rule for a just right book?
The lesson that Rob learned through his experiences as represented by his "suitcase."
What is let your feelings out and don't keep them bottled up?