Story Elements
The people, animals, or talking objects who take part in the action of the story
One or two words used to describe the subject of a book or article
What is a topic?
To tell events in order
What is retelling?
A E I O U and sometimes Y (many, fly)
What is a vowel?
A person, place, or thing
What is a noun?
Who the story is mostly about
What is main character?
What the book, passage, or article is mostly about
What is main idea?
To guess what might happen next in a story
What is predict?
Any letter that is not a vowel
What is a consonant?
A describing word
What is an adjective?
Where and when a story takes place
What is setting?
Facts used to tell more about the main idea
What are key details?
To ask or wonder
What is question?
Two letters that make one sound
sh th ch wh ck
What is a digraph?
I you she he it we
What is a pronoun?
Something that goes wrong or needs to be fixed
What is a problem or conflict?
a kind of writing with true information or facts
What is nonfiction?
To compare what you read to a personal experience
What is connection?
A word part with a vowel or vowel sound
ti-ger la-dy-bug di-no-saur
What is a syllable?
An action word
What is a verb?
How the conflict is solved
What is solution or resolution?
title heading photograph caption map
time line table or chart diagram
What is a text feature?
To picture what is happening in the story
What is visualize?
Two words put together to make one word
bathtub sunset catnip
What is a compound word?
men children mice
What are plural nouns?