Story Characters
Grades K-1-2
Grades 3-4
Famous Books/Series
Synonyms/Antonyms
100

This groovy, blue cat always keeps his cool. He loves surfing, playing baseball and guitar, spending time with his friends, and trying new things.

Pete the Cat

100

What are two ways to make the "a" sound?

ai, ay, a_e

100

What does infer mean?

Using clues from a story to figure out why something is happening
100

In this story a tall cat, who wears a red and white-striped hat and a red bow tie shows up at the house of Sally and her brother one rainy day when their mother is away.

The Cat in the Hat

100

Antonym: What is a word that means the opposite of "Hot"?

Cold, cool, freezing, arctic

200

This blue bird is silly, cranky, grumpy, and lazy.

Pigeon

200

What is a character in a story?

The who or what the story is about.
200

What is a plot?

The main events in a story.

200

This young bull does not enjoy butting heads with other young bulls. He preferring instead to lie under a cork tree smelling the flowers. His mother is concerned that he might be lonely and tries to persuade him to play with the other calves, but when she sees that he is content as he is, she leaves him alone.

Ferdinand the Bull

200

Synonym: What is a word that means the same as "Hot"?

blazing, warm, boiling, red, scorching, spicy

300

This character survived being crushed while sleeping by a falling bulletin board. He survives and makes the best of his altered state, and now visit his friends by being mailed in an envelope.

Flat Stanley

300

What is the setting of the story?

Where or when the story takes place.
300

What is the main idea of a story?

The most important idea.

300

In this famous book series Jack and Annie Smith, two normal children who are siblings from the fictional small town of Frog Creek, Pennsylvania, go on numerous adventures and missions.

Magic Tree House

300

Antonym: What is a word that means the opposite of as "Hungry"?

full, satisfied

400

This mouse lives in New Mouse City on Mouse Island. He is a nervous, mild-mannered mouse who would like nothing better than to live a quiet life, but he keeps getting involved in far-away adventures.

Geronimo Stilton

400

What is an author?

The person who writes the story.

400

What does Visualizing a story mean?

Use details from story to get a picture in your head.


400

These novels tell the life of a young wizard who is a students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He discovers, at the age of eleven, that he is a wizard, though he lives in the ordinary world of non-magical people known as Muggles.

Harry Potter Series

400

Synonym: What is a word that means the same as "Tired"?

sleepy, bored, drowsy, drained

500

This crime-biting canine is part dog, part man.

Dogman

500

Tables of Contents

Introduction............1

Chapter 1...............3

Chapter 2...............5

What page does chapter 1 start on?

Page 3

500
Name one reason an author would write a story?

Inform, persuade, or entertain.

500

In this famous books a boy named Greg Heffley struggles to fit in as he begins middle school.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

500

Name a Synonym and Antonym of the word "Sprint"

Synonym: run fast, race

Antonym: walk, standing still