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.
When an author uses phrases to compare a person or thing by using the words like or as, what is that called?
What is a simile.
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 the title
2. Predict the passage
What is the setting of a story?
The setting is where the story takes place.
How can I tell that a story that I am reading is a traditional tale?
The story may entertain, explain, or teach a lesson.
Traditional tales may tell about one's culture.
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
What is the text structure below? When I unrolled the carpet on my living room floor, I accidentally bumped into the table. The table fell with a crash and the green potted plant on top of it tumbled onto the hardwood floor. What a mess!
What is cause and effect?
The students did a magnificent job in the musical performance.
What is delicious?
Before answering the questions, what should you do?
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?
What kind of writing is shown below? (Hint: look at the punctuation!) "When will we eat dinner?" I asked mom. Mom said, "Soon."
What is dialogue?
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 is the text structure below? Sometimes, hawks and owls are badly injured by cars. These birds face a huge problem, because they can no longer hunt for food. One way to fix this is to keep the birds at special rehabilitation centers. People can visit the centers to learn more about hawks and owls.
What is problem and solution?
The basketball team was rejoicing after they won the game.
What is celebrate.
Describe Author's Purpose.