Story Elements
The time and place of a text.
What is the setting?
What is another name for the main character in the story?
What is protagonist?
A type of sentence that only has 1 independent clause.
What is simple?
The text structure that tells how things are alike and different.
What is compare/contrast?
The central message in the story.
What is theme?
The part of the story that introduces the characters, background, and setting.
What is the exposition?
The method that is used when readers have to make inferences about a character.
What is STEAL?
An incomplete sentence.
What is a fragment?
The text structure that uses these key words: Because, since, if/then, due, as a result, for this reason, consequently, therefore, because
What is cause and effect?
What is the mnemonic device to remember coordinating conjunctions?
Issues in the story that occurs outside of the character.
Another name for the character that goes against the main character in the story.
What is antagonist?
Which their/there/they're is the possessive form?
On the river banks of the Nile River, home to some crocodiles, there are many kinds of birds, sometimes called crocodile birds because they are always hopping around crocodiles. The big crocodiles and the birds are useful are useful to each other for several reasons. The birds eat files and leeches that they find on the crocodiles' skin and mouths. In this way, the birds get a good meal and the crocodiles get rid of the leeches and files. Sometimes an enemy frightens the birds who scream and fly away. As a result of the noise, the birds give the crocodiles a warning of danger.
What is cause and effect text structure?
The feeling a passage gives the READER during and after reading a story, poem, article
What is mood?
Issues that occurs within the heart and mind of a character.
What is internal conflict?
A character that exhibits many and sometimes conflicting character traits.
What is round?
Place the Commas: While I was in the kitchen the baby woke up.
While I was in the kitchen, the baby woke up.
A chimpanzee’s body is made for climbing and swinging in the trees. First, it uses its long arms to reach a branch. Next, with its flexible hands and feet, it grabs and hooks on to the branch. Finally, it swings from that branch to another branch of tree.
What is chronological/sequence text structure?
A writing strategy that allows for readers to summarize nonfiction texts.
What is GIST?
The solution to the problem (conflict) in the story.
What is resolution?
A character who undergoes significant internal change throughout the course of a story
What is dynamic?
What type of sentence is this: Though Mitchell prefers watching romantic films, he rented the latest spy thriller, and he enjoyed it very much.
What is compound-complex?
Wild chimpanzees are rapidly disappearing. Some people are trying to solve this problem. Otherwise, chimpanzees may one day exist only in zoos. People are trying to save the rain forests and woodlands where the chimps live from being cut down. It will take many people working together to solve this problem.
What is problem and solution text structure?
A strategy to actively read and engage with a text?
What is CATCH/CUBS?