Story Detectives
The "where" and "when" a story happens.
Setting
This text feature is found at the very top of a page and tells you what the whole book is called.
Title
These two letters make the /sh/ sound, like in the word "ship."
Letters s and h
When we look for how two stories are the same, we are doing this.
Comparing
This kind of word describes a noun, like "blue," "big," or "fuzzy."
Adjective
This person or animal is who the story is about.
Character
This is a list at the front of a book that tells you which page each chapter starts on.
Table of Contents
This "magic" letter sits at the end of a word and makes the vowel say its name (long vowel).
Silent E or Magic E
Different
Every sentence must start with one of these.
Capital Letter
This is the what the author wants you to learn from a story.
Lesson or Moral
This is a small sentence under a picture that explains what is happening in the photo.
Caption
In the word "flat," the letters "f" and "l" stick together to make one sound. This is called a...
A Blend
True or False: Two different books can be about the same topic (like sharks).
True
This punctuation mark goes at the end of a sentence that asks something.
Question Mark
If a character is telling the story and says "I" or "me," we call this person the...
Inside Narrator
This is the "big idea" or what the whole book is mostly about.
Topic
These are words like "the," "was," and "said" that we should know just by looking at them.
Sight Words or High Frequency Words
What is a book about fiction about?
A story that has made up characters and events
This is a word that means the opposite of another word.
Antonym
These are the three main parts of a story's sequence.
Beginning, Middle, and End.
To find the meaning of a tricky word, you can look in this "mini-dictionary" at the back of the book.
Glossary
These two vowels "go walking" together to make a long sound, like "ai" in "rain."
Vowel Team
What is a non-fiction or realistic fiction book about?
A book that is based on real people and events.
If you add "-ed" to the end of a verb like "jump," it means the action happened when?
Something that happened in the past