Help you to know exactly what something looks like
What is a photograph or illustration?
100
The beginning of the story where the characters and the setting are revealed.
What is the introduction or exposition?
100
What is happening in this picture?
What is a lady missed the bus?
100
Abraham Lincoln was elected as the 16th President of the United States in 1860. He did many things as President. Many people think he was the best American President of all time. He is most remembered for freeing the slaves. He was President of the United States during the time the Civil War was fought. The Civil War was fought between the Northern and Southern states.
How many Presidents were there before Abraham Lincoln?
A: 16
B: 15
C: 14
What is B: 15?
200
When and where the story takes place.
What is the setting?
200
Help you better understand a picture or photograph
What is a caption?
200
This is where the events in the story become complicated and the conflict in the story is revealed (events between the introduction and climax).
What is the rising action?
200
What inference can you make from this picture?
The baseball team just won the championship and went out to eat pizza to celebrate.
200
The feeling you get as you read something is called:
What is mood?
300
This is introduced early in the story in the exposition. It may be internal or external.
What is the problem or conflict?
300
Helps you define words that are in the book
What is a glossary?
300
This is the highest point of interest and the turning point of the story. The reader wonders what will happen next; will the conflict be resolved or not?
What is the climax?
300
What is used to make an inference?
What the text says and your background knowledge.
300
More than the topic of the story, the “message” the author is trying to send through the use of the story
What is theme?
400
This is the rise and fall of the action in the story.
What is the plot?
400
Helps you identify key topics in the book in the order they are presented
What is a table of contents?
400
The events and complications begin to resolve themselves. The reader knows what has happened next and if the conflict was resolved or not (events between climax and resolution).
What is the falling action?
400
Another name for your background knowledge
What is schema?
400
What are the three purposes for an author to write?
What is to persuade, to entertain, and to inform?
500
This is how the problem or conflict is solved.
What is the resolution?
500
This is an alphabetical list of ideas that are in the book. It tells you what page the idea is on.
What is an index?
500
The Part of the plot that concludes the falling action by revealing or suggesting the outcome of the conflict.
What is the resolution?
500
I had finally gotten used to being weightless. It became a comfortable feeling. I especially liked floating by the window to see the planet Earth below. Who am I?
What is an astronaut?
500
1st person (main character telling story; use of “I” and “me”) or 3rd person (narrator telling story; use of “he/she”, “him/her”)