Story Elements
The people or animals in the story.
Who are the characters?
You ask these before, during, and after reading.
What are questions?
This is a real picture.
What is a photograph?
The house the wolf blew down first.
What is the straw house?
The character who lives under the bridge.
Who is the troll?
Where the story takes place.
What is the setting?
When you come up with a new idea.
What is an inference?
This explains what is happening in the photographs.
What is a caption?
The three materials used to make the pigs' houses?
What is straw, sticks, and bricks?
The story is about three _____.
Who are goats?
When something goes wrong in the story.
What is the problem?
To make an inference you use these 2 things.
What you know and what the book tells you.
This is in the beginning of the book and tells the order of the book.
What is the table of contents?
What are gold coins?
What is grass?
When the problem is fixed.
What is the solution?
What the text is mainly about.
What is the main idea?
This gives the definitions of the words in the back of the book.
What is the glossary?
The eggs the hen lays.
What are golden eggs?
These made the goats walk quietly on the bridge in the billy goats fluff.
What are booties?
To put the events of the story in order.
What is to sequence?
These support the main idea.
What are key details?
These words are often written in BIG letters on the top of each page.
What are headings?
How many times Jack climbed up the beanstalk and everything he took.
What is 3 times and gold coins, a hen, and a harp?
What mother goat gifts to the troll.
What is a blanket and earmuffs?