Story Elements
What's the Message?
All About the Text
Figurative Language
Information Station
What's the Word?
Poetry Party
100

WHO is in the story

What is a Character?

100

Told from a character in the story using pronouns I, We, or Me

What is 1st person point of view?

100

What the story is mostly about

What is central idea?

100

A word that mimics the sound it represents

Example: "The bird's loud CHIRP CHIRP CHIRP woke me up this morning"

What is an onomatopoeia?

100

Information such as graphs, maps, and photographs that is included in a text to support ideas or topics

What is a text feature?

100

A word or phrase that someone may not know the meaning of

What is an unknown word/phrase?
100

Text that uses repeating word sounds, rhythm, and imagery to tell a story

What is a poem?

200

Where or when the story takes place

What is the setting?

200

Told from a narrator who is not in the story using pronouns he, she, it, or they

What is third person point of view?

200

Evidence or quotes from a text that support the main idea the author shares

What are relevant details?

200

Used to compare two unlike things

Example: "The dog swam like a fish in the ocean"

What is a simile?

What is a metaphor?

200

A text feature that is featured under a photograph, graph, or diagram that explains what the image is about

What is a caption?

200

Details around a word not known to the reader that help them determine the meaning of the word

What are context clues?

200

True or False: All poems must rhyme.

False. 

300

What happens throughout the story from beginning, middle, and end

What are events?

300

The writer of a story or informational text

What is an author?
300

The way a writer sets up a text in order to share information (time order, problem and solution, etc.)

What is text structure?

300

Details that "paint a picture" or allows the reader to use their 5 senses to understand a story

Example: "The big, brown horse galloped through the green field surrounded by purple flowers"

What is imagery?

300

A text feature that shows details such as geography, weather, population, important locations, etc.

What is a map?

300

Explanation of what is happening in a photograph, diagram, or illustration

What is a caption?

300

A person who writes poetry

What is a poet?

400

The lesson or message the author wants the reader to understand

What is the theme of a story?

400

Retelling a story or text in your own words

What is summarizing?

400

Type of text that details an event that happens because of another event

What is cause and effect?

400

Gives an item or object that is not “alive” human-like qualities

Example: "The wind whistled in the trees"

What is personification?

400

A letter written to a family member during a war is considered this type of source

What is a primary source?

400

A sentence or phrase that describes what a word actually means

What is a definition?

400

A type of poem that has repeating sounds at the end of each line

What is a rhyming poem or rhyme?

500

What the story is about

What is the plot?

500

A writer's reason for sharing a story (to persuade, give information, or to entertain the reader)

What is Author's Purpose?

500

Text that states an issue that needs or is solved by the end of the article

What is problem and solution?

500

A phrase or statement that has the same letter or sound repeating over and over

Example: “Proper penguins parade past people proudly”

What is an alliteration?

500

A text feature that explains what something is or how it works - Example: A ________ of a butterfly's life cycle shows how a caterpillar becomes a butterfly.

Example 2: A Venn _________ compares how a two topics or ideas are the same or different.

What is a diagram?

500

What a person already knows about a topic that helps them determine the meaning of an unknown word

What is background information?

500

A poem that does not have any type of rhyme scheme

What is a free-verse poem?

600

The problem or struggle in the story

What is conflict?

600

How the writer feels about a topic or event (for/against a topic or idea, attitude, or opinion)

What is author's perspective?

600

Type of text that finds similarities and differences between two topics or events

What is compare and contrast?

600

A saying that is exaggerated to make a point

Example: I'm so hungry, I could eat an elephant!

What is a hyperbole?

600

Underlining, circling, highlighting, and marking important details are all examples of:

What is annotating?

600

A word that is the opposite of another word

Example: Bad vs. Good

What is an antonym

600

Each sentence in a poem is called a

What is a line?

700

How the problem is solved in the story

What is the Resolution?

700

The statement or point the writer is trying to make to prove or convince that something is true (author uses reasons, evidence, and data to back up their ideas)

What is an author's claim?

700

Type of text that uses timelines and dates in order to share information

What is chronological/time order?

700

A saying that has a different meaning than what it actually says 

Example: “This homework is a piece of cake” = This homework is easy, not actual cake!

What is an idiom?

700

Letters, journals, interviews, and autobiographies are all example of _________ sources.

Hint: Remember, this type of source means the person was there when it happened or created the source themselves.

What is a primary source?

700

A word that can have more than one meaning

Example: Ring - sound on a telephone or Ring - a piece of jewelry on your finger

What is a multiple-meaning word?

700

Instead of being written in paragraphs, poems are frequently written in what format?

What is a stanza?