Story Elements
This tells where and when a story happens.
What is the setting?
We use this to find an answer in the text.
What is text evidence?
What is a period/question mark/exclamation mark?
This writing tells what you think.
What is opinion writing?
What does un- mean in unhappy?
What is not?
This is the person or animal the story is mostly about.
Who is the main character?
This tells what a text is mostly about.
What is the main idea?
An action word.
What is a verb?
This writing tells about real facts.
What is nonfiction?
Two words that have the same meaning?
What is synonym?
This is the problem in the story.
This is the problem in the story.What is the conflict/problem?
These give more information about the main idea.
What are supporting details?
A describing word.
What is an adjective?
This writing tells a story.
What is narrative writing?
Two words that have different meanings?
What is antonym?
This tells how the problem gets fixed.
What is the solution?
This means you use clues to figure something out that the author doesn't say.
What is an inference?
A word that replaces a noun when it has a specific name (your name; Adelphi; Marshall's)
What is a proper noun?
These help connect ideas:first, next, then, last.
What are transition/sequence words?
What is the root word in careless?
What is care?
Titles, headings, pictures, illustrations.
What is text features?
This is why an author writes a text.
What is the author's purpose?
Every sentence should begin with this letter.
Every paragraph should have this sentence first.
What is the topic sentence?
What is the root word in rewritten?
What is write?