Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
Here is the Southwestern Desert
Subway Architect
Why the Rooster Crows at Sunrise
Anything Goes
100

The time and place of a story.

The setting

100

It has stanzas and rhymes or repetition.

A poem

100

This city in the US has the oldest subway system.

New York City

100

A lesson taught in a fable.

A moral

100

A group of letters that go at the beginning of a word.

A prefix

200

What happens in a story--the beginning, middle , and end.

The plot

200

Deserts, mountains, forests, oceans are examples of this.

Natural environment

200

Cars, buses, trains, and airplanes are examples of this.

Transportation

200

The most important idea and the examples and explanations.

Main idea and details

200

A group of letters that go at the end of a word.

A suffix

300

The reason something happens and the event that happens.

Cause and effect

300

Readers have pictures in their minds.

Mental images

300

The person who asks the questions and the person who answers them.

Interviewer and interviewee

300

To give human thoughts, actions, and feelings to animals and things.

Personification

300

House and mouse are examples of this.

Rhyming words

400

The words characters say to each other in a story. The words are between quotation marks.

Dialogue

400

The name of the southwestern desert in Arizona.

The Sonoran Desert

400

A statement that explains information that is true and a statement that tells what someone thinks about something.

Fact and opinion

400

The information that surrounds a word.

Context

400

The person who tells the story.

The narrator

500

The author describes what a character says, does, and feels.

Characterization

500

A type of poetry that does not use rhyming words.

Free verse

500

The reason characters act the way they do.

Motivation

500

Telling stories from parents to children.

Oral tradition

500

To look at how things are the same and how they are different.

Compare and contrast