Wish Tree
The major character of the story.
Who is the Wish Tree?
What third-graders fill their notebooks with.
What are true stories?
The main message of the text.
What is the theme?
What the character looks like.
What is the appearance?
The name we give a problem with an equal sign.
What is an equation?
People come to the Wish Tree to write these on a piece of paper to hang on it.
What are wishes?
Writers use a this type of voice to tell stories, not summarize.
What is a storyteller's voice?
Characters that are not as important.
Who are the minor characters?
The qualities the characters has.
What is a trait?
5 x 2 =
What is 10
The books point of view--who it's narrated by.
Who is the Wish Tree?
The word used to describe when more than 2 people are speaking in a story.
What is dialouge?
Where the story takes place.
What is the setting?
How the character sounds or speaks.
What is voice (or dialogue)?
62 - 45 =
What is 17?
The name of the girl that was not welcomed in the neighborhood.
Who is Samar?
The part of the story writers revise by asking, "What's the most important part of the this story?"
What is the heart of the story?
The main problem that the characters face.
What is the conflict?
What the character things or feels.
What are thoughts (emotions)?
143 - 75 =
What is 68?
The word the boy carved into the tree.
What is "Leave?"
What we do in our writing when:
1. a new subtopic is introduced
2. when characters are speaking
3. When time has moved forward
What is paragraphing?
How the conflict or problem is solved.
What is the resolution?
The way the character acts around others.
What is 65?