Who's telling the story
A story that has elements that are impossible in real life like talking animals and magical powers.
What is fantasy?
Explains what events cause another event to happen.
What is Cause and effect?
When readers identify the most important ideas of what they read and restate them in their own words.
A story that comes from a specific country or culture.
What is a folk tale?
What is the genre?
When readers picture that is happening while they are reading using their 5 senses.
What is visualizing?
When a character in the story tells the story and pronouns such as I, we, us, and me suggests what point of view is being used?
What is first person point of view?
________________ is a struggle between two opposing forces. Sometimes this is called the "problem".
What is conflict?
A story that uses made-up characters and events that COULD happen in real life.
What is realistic fiction?
When readers use clues in the text and their own background knowledge to come up with conclusions to understand the text better.
What are inferences?
Why the author chose to write the text.
What is author's purpose?
When someone not in the story is telling the story and uses pronouns such as he, she, they, them, her, him suggests what point of view is being used?
What is third person point of view?
What literary term describes the action and sequence of events taking place in a story
What is the plot?
A story that takes place during a certain time period in the past the characters could be made up but the setting is real.
What is historical fiction?
The message of moral of story that can be applied to our own lives.
What is theme?
When readers identify similarities and differences between characters, texts, or events.
What is compare and contrast?
When the author uses the pronoun "you" to talk to the reader suggests what point of view is being used?
What is 2nd person point of view?
What word do we use to describe what a character is like?
What are character traits?
A story that tries to explain why something is the way it is but is untrue.
What is a myth?
What the text is mostly about.
What is the main idea?
When readers use what they know and have read to think about what is going to happen next in the text.
What is making predicitons?