Narrative Elements
Summarizing
Main Idea
Supporting Detail
Wild Card
100
What happens in a story.
What is plot?
100
A good summary covers...
What is the whole text?
100
Main idea is...
What is what the text is mostly about?
100
Supporting details are...
What is the most important details in text, details that support the main idea.
100
Synonyms are...
What are words that have the same meaning?
200
The people in a story.
What is character?
200
A good summary should include...
What is the most important details of a text?
200
Give the main idea in one sentence: It is estimated that over twenty million pounds of candy corn are sold in the US each year. Brach’s, the top manufacturer, sells enough candy corn to circle the earth 4.25 times if each piece were laid end to end. That’s a lot of candy corn, but that’s nothing compared to Tootsie Roll production. Over 64 million Tootsie Rolls are produced every day! But even Tootsie Rolls have got nothing on the candy industry’s staple product, chocolate. Confectioners manufacture over twenty billion pounds of chocolate in the United States each year. Now that’s a mouthful!
What is: Americans buy copious amounts of candy.
200
There are many types of lethal venom in the animal kingdom, but perhaps no stranger carrier than the platypus. The platypus is one of few venomous mammals. Males carry a venom cocktail in their ankle spurs that incapacitates victims with excruciating pain. Stranger still, the platypus is the only mammal that uses electroreception. What this means is that the platypus uses its bill to sense the electricity produced by the muscular movements of its prey. The platypus neither sees, hears, nor smells its prey while hunting but, rather, pursues it through electroreception. Perhaps most odd, the platypus is the only mammal that lays eggs rather than giving birth to live young. The platypus is an odd creature indeed. Give 3 supporting details. The main idea is that the platypus is a weird creature.
What is 1. Platypuses are venomous mammals. 2. Platypuses use electroreception. 3. Playpuses are mammals that lay eggs.
200
Antonyms are...
What are words that have opposite meanings?
300
When and where a story takes place.
What is setting?
300
Name the 5Ws+H.
What is who, what, when, where, why, and how?
300
Give the main idea of "Eleven" in one sentence.
What is: Rachel is sad on her eleventh birthday thanks to an impatient and thoughtless teacher.
300
The main idea of "All Summer in a Day" is that Margot is bullied to the point that she misses seeing the sun. Give at least two supporting details.
What is students' answers will vary?
300
A _____________ is a person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
400
The problem(s) in a story.
What is conflict?
400
DAILY DOUBLE!!! Name the steps in the 5 Sentence Summary strategy.
What is 1. Who had a problem, what the problem was, and what the main characters did to solve the problem 2. First, then, finally 3. Result or outcome
400
Give the main idea of "The Twits" in one sentence.
What is: The Twits are horrible people who get what they deserve from Muggle-Wump, the Roly Poly Bird, and their friends and family.
400
Which of the following is NOT a supporting detail for "The Twits"? a) Muggle-Wump plans to turn the Twits' furniture upside-down. b) Fred is the man who comes to read the Twits' gas meter. c) Roly Poly Bird is able to translate for the monkeys and English birds.
What is b) Fred is the man who comes to read the Twits' gas meter.
400
Adjectives are used to...
What is describe nouns?
500
DAILY DOUBLE!!! Theme is...
What is the moral, message, or lesson in a story?
500
Use the strategy of your choice to summarize your favorite IR book.
What is students' answers will vary.
500
Give a main idea statement for your favorite IR book.
What is students' answers will vary.
500
The main idea of "Sounds" is: Three fishermen spend the night in a haunted house and overhear a ghostly murder. Give three details to support this.
What is students' answers will vary?
500
True or false: you should always reread passages when answering questions on a test.
What is TRUE!
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