Plot Points
Readers meet characters or a setting has been established.
What is the introduction?
True or False: the climax happens at the very beginning of the story.
What is false?
The life lesson or author's message.
What is the theme?
True or False: only the sentence with the word can help you determine the meaning.
What is false?
The time and place where a story happens.
What is setting?
An important moment happens.
What is the climax?
The turning point of a story is called this.
What is climax?
A character faces a scary challenge but decides to try anyway shows this.
What is courage or grit?
"The arid desert cracked under the sun." Arid means . . .
What is dry?
These make "good" questions (2).
What is open-ended and not directly answered in reading?
Tension builds at this point in the story.
What is the rising action?
This usually happens to a character at the climax.
What is change?
A theme usually tells us something about how people _.
What is act?
This makes a word powerful.
What is unfamiliar -not commonly used or heard?
A passage patroller looks for this.
What is a text connection?
What is the rising action?
The turning point is at this part of the story.
What is the middle or peak?
True or False: a theme statement is not one word.
What is true?
"She felt elated after winning." Elated means . . .
What is happy?
This part of your evidence tracker where you notice a character's change.
What is stand-out shift?
Also known as denouement.
What is the resolution?
The part of your evidence tracker to describe the turning point of your story.
What is power moment?
The lesson or message of a story is often most clear during this part of the story.
What is the climax?
Powerful words make the story more _ by creating pictures or strong feelings for the reader.
What is vivid?
The part of the setting that describes the surroundings, weather, or atmosphere.
What is the environment?