Story Elements
What term describes the people, animals, or things that are in a story?
Characters
The purpose of this genre is to teach and inform the reader with real facts.
Informational text
Making a list of the things that are similar and different between two characters, stories, or settings.
Compare and contrast
the part of speech that is a person, place, or thing.
Noun
Books and stories are broken up into these. Each is typically around 5 sentences long.
Paragraph
What term describes where a story takes place?
Setting
This genre often contains talking animals, events that could not happen in real life, and always ends with a moral.
Folktale
Making an educated guess about what till happen in a story based on context clues and background knowledge
Inference
This describes words that sound the same but have different spellings and different meanings. Give the term and an example.
Homophones + any acceptable homophone example
Often found in nonfiction texts, these come before a new section and help the reader understand what information will be in that section
Headings
What term describes the actions and events that take place in a story?
Plot
The purpose of this genre is to tell a story. It will contain characters and often include dialogue.
Narrative
Creating a list of events in a story in order. Will often use words such as first, next, then, and last.
Sequencing
a group of letters added to the beginning of a word to change the meaning and/or part of speech of the word. With your answer please also give an example of one.
Prefix + any acceptable example
This is found underneath pictures, charts, or graphs in a passage and provides an explanation of what the image is showing.
Caption
What term describes the central or struggle that happens in a story?
Conflict
The purpose of this genre is to convince the reader that the author's opinion is true.
Persuasive writing
The relationship between an action or event that occurs and the outcome that is directly follows it.
Cause and Effect
The part of speech which are descriptive words.
Adjectives
This is the part of a book where unfamiliar words and definitions can be located.
Glossary
What term describes the perspective that a story is being told from (examples: first person, third person)
Point of View
This genre is a type of nonfiction that teaches about someone's life story, written by someone else.
Biography
Taking a large story and condensing it into a shorter version focused on the main ideas and key details.
Summarizing
Name 3 of the contractions in the FANBOYS acronym (bonus 200 points if you can name all 7)
for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so
Located in the front of a book, this can make it easier to located information in a book and tells you what page to find each chapter or section on.
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