What's My Structure ?
The text describes an event and the effects that follow.
What is cause and effect?
The part of SMILE that answers this question. Name the letter and the part:
What words or lines help you see things in your mind?
What is L, for Language?
A list of topics at the back of the book that tells you all of the pages on which a topic is discussed.
What is an index?
Name 5 story elements.
What are: Character, Setting, plot, problem, solution, key events
This is a story of a real person's life that is written by that person.
The text outlines
chronological events or a
list of steps in a procedure.
What is order and sequence? or chronological order and sequence?
The part of smile that answers these questions. Name the letter and the part:
How does the poem make you feel?
What do you think the author wanted you to feel?
What does the poem make you think about?
What is the poet trying to say or share?
What is E for Emotion/Effect?
Shows events in chronological order.
What is a timeline?
Which is NOT part of the setting?
What is problem?
A story for stage performance.
The text talks about similarities
and differences between
people, places, things, etc.
What is Compare and Contrast?
What letter answers these questions. Name the letter and the part?
What pictures do you see in your mind as you read the poem?
What is I for Images.
A sentence or phrase that accompanies a photo to give more information about what is pictured.
What is a caption?
Mrs. Burleson called my name to come sit in her chair. First, she washed my hair. I love the smell of the shampoo she uses. Then, once she was done washing my hair, she began to cut my hair. I love getting my hair cut!
What is the setting of this story?
Farm, Desert, Barbershop, or School?
What is the Barbershop?
This kind of book tells about the life a real person.
What is a Biography?
The text gives information about a problem and explains one or more solutions.
What is a problem and solution?
The part of S M I L E that answers these questions. Name the letter and the part:
Who is the speaker?
What is he/she trying to share?
What is M for Message?
A list of topics in the book and the page on which they begin?
The point in the story where the problem
and intense action come together.
What is the climax?
I am a story that takes place in a certain place and time in the past. Real historical figures and settings may be included in my fiction story. What am I?
What is historical Fiction?
Text provides details or characteristics of something.
What is description?
The part of SMILE that answers these questions? Name the letter and the part.
How is the poem organized?
How many stanzas and lines do you see?
Are there rhyming words and/or repetitive text?
What is S for Structure?
Shows where a place is located.
What is a Map?
A combination of the problem, events, and solution that make up the story.
What is the Plot?
This is a story written about events that did not actually happen but could have happened. It usually includes ordinary people in everyday life with struggles and triumphs.
What is Realistic Fiction?