Story Elements
The people or animals in a story
What are characters?
The most important idea in a paragraph or story.
What is the main idea?
If you don’t know a word, you can use these around it to figure it out.
What are context clues?
The reason the author writes something
What is the author’s purpose?
When you use clues + what you know, you make an ____.
What is an inference?
The time and place a story happens.
What is the setting?
These help explain or support the main idea.
What are supporting/key details?
A word that means the same as another word.
What is a synonym?
If a story is written to make you laugh, the author’s purpose is to ____.
What is entertain?
If a girl is holding an umbrella but it’s not raining in the picture, what can you infer?
What is it might rain or it's sunny?
The main problem in the story.
What is the conflict?
You can often find the main idea in this part of a paragraph.
What is the first sentence (or topic sentence)?
A word that means the opposite of another word.
What is an antonym?
If a text tells you how to do something, the purpose is to ____.
What is inform/teach?
In a story, the boy has a backpack and is waiting at the corner. What can you infer he is doing?
What is waiting for the school bus?
The events in order from beginning to end.
What is the plot?
This part of a nonfiction article often gives clues about the main idea.
What is the heading or title?
The word “friendly” has this kind of ending that changes its meaning.
What is a suffix?
When an author wants you to believe something or do something, the purpose is to ____.
What is persuade/convince?
If a character is crying and holding a broken toy, what might you infer?
What is the toy is important and they are sad it broke?
The big lesson the author wants you to learn.
What is the theme?
When you read a paragraph and think about what it’s mostly about, you are doing this.
What is summarizing?
The word “unkind” has this at the beginning that changes its meaning.
What is a prefix?
PIE is a good way to remember author’s purpose. What does PIE stand for?
What is Persuade, Inform, Entertain?
Inference is like being a ____.
What is a detective?