The time and place of a story.
The setting
It has stanzas and rhymes or repetition.
A poem
This city in the US has the oldest subway system.
New York City
A lesson taught in a fable.
A moral
A group of letters that go at the beginning of a word.
A prefix
What happens in a story--the beginning, middle , and end.
The plot
Deserts, mountains, forests, oceans are examples of this.
Natural environment
Cars, buses, trains, and airplanes are examples of this.
Transportation
The most important idea and the examples and explanations.
Main idea and details
A group of letters that go at the end of a word.
A suffix
The reason something happens and the event that happens.
Cause and effect
Readers have pictures in their minds.
Mental images
The person who asks the questions and the person who answers them.
Interviewer and interviewee
To give human thoughts, actions, and feelings to animals and things.
Personification
House and mouse are examples of this.
Rhyming words
The words characters say to each other in a story. The words are between quotation marks.
Dialogue
The name of the southwestern desert in Arizona.
The Sonoran Desert
A statement that explains information that is true and a statement that tells what someone thinks about something.
Fact and opinion
The information that surrounds a word.
Context
The person who tells the story.
The narrator
The author describes what a character says, does, and feels.
Characterization
A type of poetry that does not use rhyming words.
Free verse
The reason characters act the way they do.
Motivation
Telling stories from parents to children.
Oral tradition
To look at how things are the same and how they are different.
Compare and contrast