Story Elements
The part of the story where we meet the characters and the setting is established.
What is the introduction/exposition?
This is exaggeration like "it was the best ice cream ever!"
What is hyperbole?
What the text is mostly about.
What is "main idea" or what is a "summary"?
When a text shows you how to do something.
What is a procedural text?
This strategy involves not caring at all if you are the first one done.
What is "taking your time" ?
The part of the story when the problem gets worse and worse and tension builds.
What is the rising action?
Boom! Crash! Splat! are examples.
What is onomatopoeia?
The type of point of view is when it's as if the author "floats" above the characters and describes what's happening.
What is "third person"?
When a text shows you how one thing effects another thing.
What is cause and effect?
This is strategy is useful on multiple choice questions when you know some of the answers are not even close to correct.
What is the "X Out" or "answer elimination" tool?
The most exciting part of the story when you are on the edge of your seat waiting to see if it will be a good ending or a bad one.
What is the climax?
Comparing two things using words "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
What is a "theme"?
When writing is organized by time order.
What is chronological?
This drop-down item from CMAS is not available on iReady because you cannot go back to questions a second time. (So you have to be double sure before you click "done.")
What is "bookmark" or "review" ?
The part of the story after the climax that wraps up the story. It might be a happily ever after moment or a twist ending.
What is falling action?
Using words to describe what it sounds like, feels like, tastes like, smells like, or looks like.
What is Sensory Imagery?
When you use clues from the text and your own background knowledge to make an educated guess about what's going to happen.
What is an inference?
This text would show similarities and differences between two things.
What is Compare and Contrast?
This strategy has been proven to help kids understand what they read more thoroughly.
What is "annotating" or "highlighting" the important parts of the text?
What is another word for "the problem in the story"?
What is conflict?
Similes, metaphors, personification, idioms, and hyperbole are all examples.
What is figurative language?
These type of myths usually explain how or why something started.
What is an "origin" story?
The words underneath pictures.
What are "captions" ?
These two words having to do with "how hard you try" and "how you block distractions" are known to be keys to achieving success on tests like iReady and CMAS.
What are "focus" and "effort" ?