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Non-Fiction Elements
Fiction Elements
Characters
The Author
100
The broad idea of what the text will be about. This is often found in the title of the piece, chapter title, or first sentence.
What is a topic?
100
The struggle that the main character is going to face or is facing throughout the story; when something goes wrong.
What is the problem?
100
The person or people the story is about.
What is a main character?
100
This is when the author selects a topic then tries to inform, persuade, entertain, or explain his or her topic to the reader.
What is the author's purpose?
200
This is the overarching idea about what the text is about.
What is the main idea?
200
This is where or when the story takes place.
What is setting?
200
A character trait that describes a character's personality which affects how they respond to problems and other obstacles in the text.
What is a personality trait?
200
The message that the author is trying to convey, or message to, the reader.
What is theme?
300
These give extra information to the main idea. They help prove the main idea.
What are supporting details?
300
The answer to the problem, what the main character is working towards throughout the text.
What is the solution?
300
This describes the character's appearance.
What is a physical character trait?
300
This is when you used background knowledge and other things you've read to make predictions about what will come next.
What is making inferences?