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?
A person, place, object, or animal.
What is a noun?
This writing tells what you think.
What is opinion writing?
Words that are different but have the same meaning?
What is a synonym?
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 informational writing?
What a text is mostly about.
What is main idea?
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?
Extra information that supports the main idea.
What are details?
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.
What is a pronoun?
These help connect ideas: first, next, then, last.
What are transition words?
To tell what happened in order.
What is sequence?
This is the reason an author writes.
What is the author's purpose?
Pictures, headings, titles.
What is a text feature?
Every sentence should begin with this letter.
What is a capital letter?
Every paragraph should have this sentence first.
What is the topic sentence?
Words that have different meanings.
What is an antonym?