Realistic Fiction Vocab

In a piece of narrative text, what is the "theme"?

• What the story is about
• The topic of the text
• A message the author is trying to get across to the reader
• Where and when the story happens

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RL.3.6

CCSS.RL.4.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.10

Which of these things is not related to the "theme" in a story?

• how a character is feeling
• a "life lesson" the main character learns
• a big idea that people from any culture or any place can understand
• the moral of the story

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.9

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.5.9

CCSS.RL.6.2

Plot

• The lesson  learned
• The events in a story
• Support the main idea

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

Genre

• The break apart
• Type of text
• For or against

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

Analyze

• To break apart
• An educated guess
• Proof

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Main idea

• What the story is all about
• The lesson learned
• Read between the lines

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

Supporting details

• Backs up the main idea
• The events in a story
• To tell orally

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

Infer

• the lesson learned
• to break apart
• read between the lines

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.4A

CCSS.RF.3.4C

CCSS.RF.5.4B

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

Background knowledge

• To state briefly the main points
• Knowledge based on prior exposure and experiences
• An action that brings about a result

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.4.4C

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

What is the setting?

• Where and when the story takes place
• The main character's home
• Where the author wrote the story
• A place to sit

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3