Nonsense Words
Dialogue
James & Peach
Du Iz Tak
Story Map
100

Say this word correctly: ap

Ah-pp

100

Make this dialogue: Please help me

"Please help me," said Mrs. Jones.

100

What is the main problem in "James and the Giant Peach"? 

James is stuck in the peach or James needs to escape his aunts.

100

In "Du Iz Tak" what is the climax of the story? 

The spider! 

100

The big problem in a story.

What is the conflict?

200
Say this word correctly: vude

viewed

200

What is the real name of the punctuation when we "open" and "close" the door? 

Quotation Marks

200

The skymen were busy making these when the Peach and crew first saw them.

What is hail?

200

What kind of bug is Icky and Ooky? 

Roly-poly or Pill bugs

200

The people and animals in a story.

What are the Characters?

300

Say this word correctly: sutch

ss-uh-tt-ch

300

Edit this sentence with correct dialogue: Mrs. Jones asked "Mrs Reding will you please pass the pizza"

Mrs. Jones asked, "Mrs. Reding, will you please pass the pizza?"

300

What did Aunt Spiker look like? 

Tall, really skinny, bird nose, glasses, and a mole on her chin

300
The animal that saves the insect furt (fort). 

What is the bird?

300

The lesson or message of the story.

What is the theme?

400

Say this correctly: puq

puck

400
The punctuation you use to separate the dialogue tag from the words spoken. It is also used to create a pause in a sentence.

What is a comma?

400

This is the building the peach landed on in the USA.

What is the Empire State Building?

400

The word used for flower in Du Iz Tak.

What is Gladdenboot?
400

Where and when a story takes place.

What is the setting?

500

Say this word correctly: tambl

tam-bul

500

The term for who said it and how they said it.

What is Dialogue Tag?

500

What is the theme/main idea of "James and the Giant Peach"? 

Discovering friendship

Keep going when things get hard

Building your "found family" 

500

In "Du Iz Tak" what is happening all throughout the story? One thing starts in the beginning, we follow it all through the story, and then it starts over at the end of the book. 

The caterpillar's journey to becoming a butterfly! Story starts with the caterpillar, then he goes into the cocoon, he hatches and turns into a butterfly (or moth) and his cocoon falls off the stick in the winter, then at the end of the book, a new caterpillar is walking across the ground to get to the stick. OR The plant emerges from the ground, grows into a flower, then new plants emerge.

500

When the story is coming to an end and the problem is solved.

What is the resolution?