Story Elements
3rd Grade Reading
Stories we've read
Genre
3rd Grade Grammar
100

This is when/where the story takes place.

The setting

100

This is where a story takes place.

What is the setting. 

100
This story is about an ancient king who's touch turned things to gold. 

What is the story of King Midas and the Golden Touch. 

100

This type of story includes real events from a person's life, but it's written by someone else. 

Biography

100

This part of speech is a person, place, thing.

A noun

200

What does chronological order mean? 

When the order of events that happen from first to last. 

200

What does it mean to "use context clues" to determine what something means?

Use surrounding details from the text to understand what you're reading. 

200

This story is about a young boy in Mexico who's magic shoes help him win a basket ball game. 

What is Bravo Tavo. 

200

This kind of story tells a lesson or moral, often involving talking animals. 

What is a fable or tall tale. 
200

This part of speech is an action word.

A verb.

300

The series of events in a story from beginning to end.

The plot.

300

What kind of text contains information that is real, or events that happened in real life? 

What is non-fiction. 

300

This story about an engineer and how he invented a new part to help trains run better. 

What is the Story of Elijah McCoy. 

300

Give 3 examples of text features

Bold print/vocabulary terms, glossary, pictures, captions, headings, graphs/tables/diagrams, bullet points, etc.

300

This part of speech describes a noun or pronoun.

Ex:  The pretty girl played with the small cat.

An adjective

400

This kind of story has characters, plot, and setting. 

What is a fiction or narrative story. 

400
List two elements of Historical Fiction. 

Happened in the past, real or fake characters, real or fake events, real setting

400
This latin america fable tells the story of a young woman woo'd by various animals on the advice of her cuban grandmother, spilling coffee on them. 

What is Martina the Beautiful Cockroach?

400

This is what the story is mostly about?

Main Idea

400

What is the adverb in this sentence?

I was feeling hungry, so I quickly made myself a delicious sandwich.

quickly

500

Words that have the same or similar meaning are called?

Synonyms

500

What type of story has magic, or elements that couldn't happen in real life? 

What is a fantasy story. 
500

In this story, a young girl learns that she has a talent as a stage manager and helps others through the school Talent Show

What is the Incredible Clementine? 

500

These are the people that the story is about

Who are the characters in a story. 

500

These phrases are examples of what?

The wind howled at night. The book was so popular it flew off the shelves. The last piece of pie was calling my name.

Personification - giving human qualities to things and ideas that are not humans.