Literary Genres
Elements of a Story
Social Studies
Math Vocabulary
Science
100
A suspenseful story about a puzzling event that is not solved until the end of the story.
What is a Mystery?
100
The type of story or literary work.
What is a Genre?
100
The way people make, buy, sell and use things
What is Economy?
100
25 cents
What is quarter?
100
A living thing
What is organism?
200
Texts that provide facts about a variety of topics (sports, animals, science, history, careers, travel, geography, space, weather, etc.).
What is Informational?
200
The person who writes the story.
What is author?
200
A plan for using money
What is a budget?
200
The answer to an addition problem.
What is sum?
200
All of the stages in an organism's life
What is life cycle?
300
Verse written to create a response of thought and feeling from the reader. It often using rhythm and rhyme to help convey its meaning.
What is Poetry?
300
The most important person or animal in the story.
What is main character?
300
Someone who makes and sells goods
What is a producer?
300
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What is greater than?
300
The way organisms make more of their own kind
What is reproduction?
400
A fictional story that takes place in a particular time period in the past. Often the setting is real, but the characters are made up from the author's imagination.
What is Historical Fiction?
400
The sequence of events that take place in the story. Also known as the beginning, middle and end of a story.
What is plot?
400
Someone who buys the goods or services sold by a producer
What is a consumer?
400
Number sentence
What is an equation?
400
The passing of characteristics from a parent to offspring.
What is heredity?
500
Stories that are passed down from one group to another in history. This includes folktales, legends, fables, fairy tales, tall tales, and myths from different cultures.
What is Traditional Literature?
500
When the story happens (past, present, future). Where the story happens.
What is setting time and setting place?
500
The skills, knowledge, and hard work that people bring to their jobs.
What is Human Resources?
500
Three thousand, five hundred, twenty-three...
What is written form?
500
The basic building blocks of life; all living things are made of these
What are cells?