Narrative
Story Elements
Informational
Text Structures
Ms. Rath
100

The person telling the story.

What is a narrator?

100

Time and place of a story.

What is setting?

100

What the text is mostly about.

What is central idea?

100

An author explains/tells about a topic, event, or person.

 

What is description?

100

Who is Ms. Rath's favorite teacher?

Ms. Nichols

200

What the character is feeling or thinking about what is happening in the story

What is perspective?

200

The people or animals in a story.

What are characters?

200

Graphs, Illustrations, Photos, Captions, Titles, Headings, Subheadings, Timelines, Diagrams, Footnotes, Glossary, Bolded Words, Table of Contents

What are text features?

200

Events or steps described in order of which they happened.

What is chronological?

200

Who is Ms. Rath's favorite singer?

Taylor Swift

300

The message or lesson in a story.

What is theme?

300

The main issue or struggle a main character faces in a story.

What is a conflict?

300

Details from a text that support a claim.

What is evidence?

300

An author describes similarities and differences of two or more topics.

What is compare and contrast?

300

What pets does Ms. Rath have?

Cats 

400

1st person, 2nd person, 3rd person



What is point of view?

400

The main events or the story line.

What is plot?

400

A statement the author makes that is supported with facts/details.

What is a claim?

400

An author presents a conflict and explains the resolution.

What is problem and solution?

400

What is Ms. Rath's favorite subject?

Social Studies

500

Retelling the main events in story

What is summarizing?

500

The way an author develops a character throughout the story?

What is characterization?

500

The why an author is writing

What is author's purpose?

500
An author describes how something occurs as a result of something else.

What is cause and effect?

500

What is Ms. Rath most likely to forget to do in the morning?

Attendance