Story Elements
What are characters?
The people, animals, or things in a story
What is summarizing?
When you tell the most important parts of a text in your own words.
A word that has the opposite meaning of another word is __________________
An antonym
What is a noun?
A person, place, thing or idea.
What is a flashback?
When a story jumps back in time to show past events.
Who is the main character?
The most important character in the story.
What is a fact?
A statement that can be proven true or false is called this.
What is a synonym?
A word that has a similar meaning to another word.
A sentence always has a __________ and ____________.
Subject and predicate
What is the climax?
The turning point or most exciting part of the story.
What is setting?
Where and when a story takes place.
What is inferring?
Using clues in the text + your background knowledge to understand something not directly stated.
Suffixes go at the _______________ of a word.
end
What is a verb?
A verb is an action or state of being.
What is the resolution in a story?
How the story ends or how the problem is solved.
What is foreshadowing?
When the author gives hints about what will happen later in the story.
When you use clues in the text to understand a word you don’t know, you are using ____.
context clues
Provide 2 examples of sequence words:
first, next, then, finally...
A word used to describe a noun is a _______________.
Adjective
The emotional or psychological tension the author builds before the climax is called ......?
Suspense
What is theme?
This element shows the message the author wants the reader to learn.
When you identify information that caused something to happen and the result that followed, you are analyzing ____
cause and effect
What is growth mindset?
This mindset helps you believe you can improve with effort, practice, and learning from mistakes.
Give 2 examples of prepositions
on, in, behind, under...
What is text structure?
The idea that a text is organized in a certain format (chronological, cause/effect, compare/contrast).