Story Structure
This term refers to where and when a story takes place, such as "a dark forest at midnight."
What is the setting?
Found at the very front of a book, this text feature lists the chapter titles and the page numbers where they start.
What is the Table of Contents?
If you add this prefix to the beginning of the word happy, it changes the meaning to "not happy."
What is un-? (To make unhappy)
This is the silent letter at the end of the word make that tells the vowel a to say its own name.
What is the "Magic E"?
If an author writes a book filled with funny jokes and a silly story about aliens, their main purpose is to do this.
What is to entertain?
This is the big lesson or moral that the author wants you to learn from reading a fable or story.
What is the central message? (Accept: "the theme" or "the lesson")
This text feature is a short line of text written directly underneath or next to a picture to explain what the picture is showing.
What is a caption?
"The giant elephant was enormous compared to the tiny mouse." Based on this sentence, "enormous" means this.
What is very big? (Accept: "huge" or "large")
This is the two-letter "vowel team" found in the words boat, coat, and soap that makes the long O sound.
What is OA?
This is the author's purpose when they write a nonfiction book packed with real facts, charts, and maps about North Carolina.
What is to inform?
This part of a story's plot introduces a conflict or trouble that the characters have to fix.
What is the problem?
Found at the back of a book, this text feature lists important words in ABC order along with their definitions.
What is the glossary?
If you add the suffix -less to the word care, it creates a new word that means this.
What is without care? (To make careless)
When you divide the two-syllable word napkin into its separate syllables, it looks like this.
What is nap-kin?
When a story is told by a character inside the book who uses the word "I," it is told from this specific point of view.
What is first-person?
In the story of The Three Little Pigs, this is how the third pig responds to the wolf blowing on his house.
What is building his house out of strong bricks? (Accept similar answers)
Authors use this specific text feature—words printed in darker, thicker ink—to show that a vocabulary word is important.
What is bold print? (Accept: "bold words")
These are words that sound exactly the same but have different spellings and meanings, like see and sea.
What are homophones?
This is the two-letter consonant blend at the beginning of the word shout or shop.
What is SH?
This is the type of traditional story that usually begins with "Once upon a time," has magical characters, and ends with "happily ever after."
What is a fairy tale?
This is the literary term for the final part of a story where the main problem is solved and the story wraps up.
What is the resolution?
If a book includes a diagram of a honeybee, this specific text feature points to different parts of the bee to name them.
What are labels?
"The weather was so chilly that Max had to wear his heaviest winter coat and gloves." The context clues in this sentence tell you that "chilly" means this.
What is cold?
This is the suffix you add to the end of a base word to show that an action already happened in the past.
What is -ed?
When you read two different books about the true story of Betsy Ross, you are comparing the author's main points, which is also known as this.
What is comparing and contrasting?