Story Map
The beginning of the story where the characters and setting are introduced.
What is exposition?
The name for a word that is made up of two other words squished together.
What is a compound word?
The name for a "poetry paragraph."
What is a stanza?
The genre that is made up, but could happen in real life.
What is realistic fiction?
The name of the Frog Princess in the play we read.
Who is Ranita?
The most exciting part of a story.
What is the climax?
Two words that sound the same but have different meanings.
What is a homophone/are homophones?
Type of Japanese poem about nature.
What is a haiku?
The genre that is made up, but set in the past with real settings and characters.
The name of the dog who ran for mayor and caused all sorts of trouble.
Who is LaRue/Ike LaRue?
The part of the story where the characters try and try to solve the problem but are unsuccessful.
What is rising action?
The definition of the root word "graph"
What is "write?"
Syllable pattern for a Haiku.
What is 5-7-5?
The genre that tells a short story, often about animals, and teaches a life lesson.
What is a fable?
The type of food that was made/created in the very first "long" story we read this year. (hint: there was a competition with princesses).
What is pizza?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
The part of the story where things return to normal after the problem is solved.
What is falling action?
What is "again?"
The name for the person narrating the poem.
What is/Who is the speaker?
The genre of a nonfiction article.
What is expository text?
The name of the GMO plant that farmers grow. (hint: there's a popular song about it)
What is Bt corn?
The part of the story where characters reflect on what they learned.
What is resolution?
The name for a word that combines two words, but leaves out some of the letters from one or both of the words and replaces them with an apostrophe.
What is a contraction?
Term for the beats of stressed/unstressed syllables in a poem.
What is rhythm?
The genre that tells us how something "came to be."
What is a legend?
The number of suspects in the first Reader's Theater we performed.
What is five?