Story Elements
What is the setting of a story?
Where and when the story takes place.
What is the main idea?
What the text is mostly about.
What are context clues?
Hints in the text that help define a word.
Is a fairy tale fiction or nonfiction?
Fiction
How many vowels are in the word "education"?
5
What do we call the people or animals in a story?
Characters
What helps support the main idea?
Supporting Details / Evidence
What is a synonym?
A word that means the same or nearly the same.
Is a biography fiction or nonfiction?
Nonfiction
What part of speech names a person, place, thing, or idea?
Noun
What is the problem in a story called?
Conflict
What is an inference?
A conclusion based on clues and evidence.
What is an antonym?
A word with the opposite meaning.
Which type of text gives real facts and information?
Nonfiction
What is the opposite of "begin"?
End/ Finish
What is the sequence of events in a story called?
Plot
What do readers use to support their answers from the text?
Text evidence.
What is a prefix?
Letters added to the beginning of a word.
Which type of text is created from imagination?
Fiction
A story takes place in a castle during the Middle Ages. A young knight must defeat a dragon to save the kingdom. What is the setting?
A castle during the Middle Ages
What is the lesson or message of a story called?
Theme
What is a summary?
A short retelling of the most important parts.
What is a suffix?
Letters added to the end of a word.
Name one feature often found in nonfiction texts.
Headings, captions, diagrams, maps, charts, photos, etc.
A story takes place in a castle during the Middle Ages. A young knight must defeat a dragon to save the kingdom. What is the conflict?
Conflict: Defeating the dragon to save the kingdom