Story Elements
Fiction always includes this description of time and place.
What is setting?
A group of lines in poetry, similar to a paragraph.
What is a stanza?
This text feature helps me know what words are important in the text.
What is BOLDED words?
The name for the group of people in a play.
What is the cast of characters?
4-5 sentences using RATE
Short Constructed Response
The point of view told by someone in the story.
What is first person?
A group of words, they go from the left to the right and may or may not have punctuation at the end.
What is a line?
Author's use this to let the reader know what the main idea of the paragraph will be.
What is topic sentece?
These are the words that tell what the characters should be doing while on stage. These words are usually in (parenthesis).
What is stage directions?
words in a passage that prove your answer
Text evidence
These are based on the actions and words of the characters.
What are character traits?
using clues and background knowledge to figure something out in the text
an inference
These words are located at the top of dictionary pages.
What are guide words?
This gives details about the time and place that the story took place.
What is the setting?
a problem, disagreement, or fight
conflict
Authors sometimes includes this hidden message or lesson in their stories.
What is a theme?
True or False. Poetry can tell a story.
What is true?
Sometimes authors use graphs, charts, webs, or diagraphs to give the reader additional information or to help them understand something better. What are these called?
What are graphic organizers?
Lines that are spoken between two or more characters.
What is dialogue?
a piece of writing including an introduction, body paragraph, and conclusion using RATE
Extended Constructed Response
The point of view when he, she, it, or they is primarily used?
What is third person?
When a line of a poem ends without punctuation and another starts on the next line.
What is a line break?
Writers organize information 3 different ways.
What is cause and effect, compare and contrast, and sequence of events?
the person giving outsider information in a text
What is the narrator?
a shortened version of a story
summary