Text Features
When an author uses BOLD letters, what might he want the read her to know?
This might be something important or something to be said loudly.
What is the time and place that a story takes place?
Setting
The lesson the author wants the reader to learn.
What is the theme?
Someone who teaches
What is a teacher?
Cause: Gigi was looking for adventure, fortune, and stuff.
What was the effect:
He left his home.
What does a heading do?
Tell you what a section will be about?
What do we call the list of names in the beginning of the play?
Cast of Characters
The time and place of the story.
What is setting?
A person who instructs others on how to do something
What is an instructor?
What was the effect this had?
She gave him her animals and a magic ring.
What type of text does the author use for stage directions?
Italics
The background that might be painted to show different scenery.
Backdrop
What is the theme of Gigi and the Wishing Ring?
What is you get what you give?
Someone who fixes our plumbing.
What is a plumber?
Cause: Gigi wants to impress Maliarda.
What is the effect of this?
He wished for nice clothes and a mansion.
What do we call the words next to a picture that tells what the picture is?
A caption
Words often written in parentheses to tell the actors what to do.
Stage Directions
How do we know that Gigi and the Wishing Ring is a drama?
Cast of Characters
Character's speaking parts
Stage Directions
A suffix that tells a person that does something
What is -er or -or?
Cause: Maliarda places the ring on her finger.
What effect did this have?
She tricked Gigi and wished that he was on a mountaintop.
What will you find in the Cast of Characters box?
Character names
setting
props
These are items the characters might do to help tell the story better.
Ex. the ring in Gigi's story, or bowls of food.
Props
What is the setting at the beginning of the play?
Gigi's home
One who dreams.
What is a dreamer?
What effect does this have?
He got off the mountain and wished that Maliarda be halfway on the mountain.