Elements of a Story
What is the "Setting" of a story?
Setting is the location of the story.
Plants need these three things to grow.
water, sunlight, and nutrients
What is the setting in our passage?
It can be in a pond (frogs) or on a plant (butterfly), etc.
What is the main idea of the passage?
Life cycles of plants and animals
What is the first stage of a plant’s life cycle?
A seed.
Who is the "protagonist" of the story?
This is the main character in the story.
What is a sprout?
This is what a seed turns into when it starts to grow.
What are characters?
These are the living things in the passage, like seeds, frogs, dogs, and butterflies.
What plants and animals do throughout their lives?
They grow and change.
Put these in order for a frog’s life cycle: Adult frog, egg, tadpole.
egg → tadpole → adult frog
What is the main idea?
This is the main point of the story.
What animal starts as a tadpole?
a frog
What is the events (what happens)?
This is what happens in the passage as plants and animals grow and change.
Why is the word “cycle” used when talking about plants and animals?
Because the process repeats again and again
After a caterpillar hatches from an egg, what is the next stage? What is a larva (caterpillar)?
A larva (caterpillar)
What is the solution?
This is how the problem in the story gets fixed.
What a dog is born from?
its mother’s belly
What is nonfiction?
This is the type of passage that gives facts and teaches information, not a made-up story.
What do all the examples in the passage (plants, frogs, dogs, butterflies) have in common?
They all grow and change through stages
What happens after a plant becomes fully grown?
It makes new seeds.
What is the theme?
This is the lesson or message the story teaches.
What is a caterpillar?
This insect becomes a butterfly after the pupa stage.
What is the author’s purpose?
This is the reason the author wrote the passage, to teach us about how living things change.
What is the author trying to help the reader understand by explaining different life cycles?
What is how all living things change as they grow over time.
Put these in order for a butterfly’s life cycle: butterfly, pupa, egg.
egg → pupa → butterfly