Story Structure
What is a character in a story?
A person, animal, or non-living thing that talks in the story.
What words should you remember when thinking about what a character's traits are?
Character's feelings and how they change throughout the story.
A story that discusses the theme and talks about one's culture and may be a retold story.
What is Folktale
Our teacher made preparations for us to take the reading quiz today.
What is activities to prepare.
Before reading a story, what are the first 2 things you should do?
What is
1. Underline/Highlight the title
2. Predict the passage
What is the setting of a story?
The setting is where the story takes place.
Given an example of how a character develops throughout a story.
Answers may vary.
Example: The character's feelings in the beginning of the story vs the feelings at the end of the story.
This genre may teach a lesson and may have a magical adventure.
Example: Cinderella or Princess & the Frog
What is a fairy tale.
The fierce tiger was extremely hungry.
wild or dangerous.
If you don't know the answer to the questions, what should you do?
What is
1. Go back to the text to check for key details.
In a fiction or traditional tale, the story usually has a problem. True or False
True
How can you describe the Grandma's character in Grandma and the Great Gourd.
Beginning of story: She was eager to see her daughter, but afraid of the fierce animals that she'd have to encounter.
Grandma was clever.
Grandma was brave.
What is the purpose of a Traditional Tale?
What is to entertain, explain, or teach a lesson.
The students did a magnificent job in the musical performance.
What is delicious?
What is the strategy called that allows you to read the title and look at the illustrations to help you predict what the story is going to be about?
What is eliminate the wrong answers.
What is the problem in this story of this paragraph? One day, Tom and Jerry were walking to school. It started to rain. Tom began to cry because he did not have an umbrella. Jerry did have an umbrella and he was able to share his umbrella with Tom. They quickly walked to class.
Tom was sad because he did not have an umbrella and it had started to rain.
What makes characters act the way they do?
What is motivation?
This genre has characters and events that seem realistic.
What is realistic fiction
She brooded over her mistake for days.
To think deeply or worry.
What does a poem consist of? There are 3 answers
1. Lines
2. Stanzas
3. Rhythm & Rhyme
Which part of the story usually describes the plot.
a. The middle of the story
b. The end of the story
c. The beginning of the story.
The middle of the story.
What was the theme in the story, Why the Sky is Far Away?
Answers may vary.
1. Don't be wasteful or greedy.
2. There are consequences for your actions if you don't follow the rules.
3. Rules are established to help keep the world a cleaner place.
The setting of this type of story is in a real place or a place that could be real. Characters behave like real people.
What is realistic fiction.
The basketball team was rejoicing after they won the game.
What is celebrate.
Describe Author's Purpose.