Key Words
True or False James Ale wants to petition the mayor because he wants to make changes in his school.
What is False? James Ale wants to petition the mayor because he wants a new park for his neighborhood.
Why do the children in James Ale's neighborhood play in the street?
What is they do not have a safe place to play?
When you make a _______, you make up your mind about something.
What is a decision?
Stories about events that really happen are called ________.
What are true stories or non-fiction
These are important things that happen in a story.
What are events?
This is where the story takes place (Davie Florida). The place where the story takes place is called the ______.
What is a setting?
Why does James want to make a change in his community?
What is the children have no safe place to play in the community and need to play in the street?
These people help the mayor decide to build a park for James Ale. The mayor cannot make the decision alone. Who helps him?
What is the city council?
Genre means what kind of story. What is the genre for the James Ale story?
What is a non fiction true story?
Events in a story happen in a certain sequence. What word means the same as sequence? In the same ____.
What is order?
This person is the leader of a city or town. How do you spell what he or she is called?
What is M-A-Y-O-R?
True or False? A community is a group of people who make laws for a country, a state, or a city.
False. What is a government?
Characters are the people in the story. In a true story, the characters are real people. True or False?
What is True? Characters in a true story are real people
Words like (first, next, after, and then) are_____ words.
What is are transitional words
These are punctuation marks used before and after the words that someone say in a story.
What are quotation marks?