Yeh-Shen
Rough Face Girl
Three Billy Goats Gruff
Elements of a Story
Vocabulary
100

Who was mean to Yeh-Shen?

Stepmother and stepsister

100

How many sisters did Rough Face Girl have?

Two

100

How many characters were in this story?

Four

100

What is it called when we tell where and when a story happens?

Setting

100

What’s another word for mean or unkind?

Cruel

200

What country is Yeh-Shen from?

China

200

Why did the girl have a “rough face”?

Her face got burned in a fire

200

What was the setting of this story?

A hillside

200

What part of the story introduces the characters and setting?

Beginning

200

The troll was described as “bad-tempered”. What does that mean?

Gets angry easily

300

What color was the slipper Yeh-Shen lost?

Golden

300

What was the name of the huts that Rough Face Girl lived in?

Wigwams

300
What were the two problems that the Billy Goats had?

The grass on their hill was dry and dead and they had to cross a bridge that had a troll under it to find fresh grass

300

What do we call the message an author wants you to learn from a story?

Lesson

300

If something can't be seen, it is ______.

Invisible

400

What type of fish did Yeh-Shen have?

A Koi Fish

400

What was Rough Face Girl’s dress made of?

Tree bark

400

What sound do the goats make when they cross the bridge?

Trip trap trip trap

400

What do you call the order of events of a story?

The plot

400

What is a mark left on your skin after a cut or burn heals?

Scar

500

What did Yeh-Shen's stepmother do to trick the fish into coming close to the water?

She wore Yeh-Shen's clothes so the fish would think she was Yeh-Shen


500

When the Invisible Being's sister asked the girl what his bow and his shoulder strap were, what two things in the sky did she name?

The rainbow and the Milky Way

500

What happened to troll at the end of the story?

Great Big Billy Goat Gruff pushed the troll off the bridge and he was swept away

500

What is a word that describes how a character acts, like kind, greedy, or brave?

A character trait

500

In both stories, kind characters got good things and mean characters got bad things. What word means that what you do comes back to you?


Karma