Story Elements
Comprehension Strategies
Passages
Test Taking Skills
Potpourri
100
This is the name given to the events in a story.
What is a plot?
100
When a person makes a statement about what they think might happen next.
What is a foreshadow?
100
The most important thing that the writer wants you to know about the topic of a passage.
What is the main idea?
100
The 2 most important things to remember when the test is about to begin
What is listen and follow directions?
100
The following details describe the time of day, or time of year, could be time in history, or weather, location, or scenery.
What is the setting?
200
The name given to all of the people in a passage or story.
What are characters?
200
What are people or animals in a story?
What are characters?
200
These things support the main idea.
What are the key details?
200
The most important element of test taking.
What is a positive attitude?
200
Writers use this to make characters come to life.
What is characterization?
300
When and where the story or passage take place.
What is a setting?
300
A writer can make the characters come alive by using what type of writing technique?
What is characterization?
300
An illustration that helps to explain what the main idea and key details are.
When a graphic organizer is used.
300
This is important to do the night before the test....
What is a good night's sleep?
300
Sometimes in a story the reader is given a hint about what will happen next, the term that is used for this plot technique is called?
What is foreshadowing?
400
When you use clues in the story to help you make decisions.
What is an inference?
400
An educated guess based on details stated in the story or passage.
When a reader is making an inference?
400
The message or moral an author is writing about is called...
What is the theme?
400
This is most important the morning of the test.....
What is a nutritious breakfast?
400
A story that keeps you reading and reading till the end has this added feature or there would not be a plot. This text structure is something we recently reviewed and is composed of a struggle between two forces in a story.
What is conflict?
500
This is the person the story is "mostly" about.
What is the main character?
500
Chronological Order and Cause and Effect are...
What is a text structure?
500
The problem in the story or a struggle between two forces is called?
What is the conflict?
500
A strategy to use when you don't have a clue about the right answer....
What is eliminate wrong answers?
500
What is today's lesson standard, that was repeated 3 times in the Powerpoint.
Students will learn to draw on specific details and examples from a text to describe the character, setting, or event (plot)