Plot/Inferencing

The sequence of events in a story

• setting
• theme
• plot
• climax

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

The time and place in which the story takes place.

• setting
• plot
• theme
• climax

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

The people or animals in the story

• author
• narrator
• characters
• climax

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

The main idea of the story 
(THE MEssage)

• exposition
• plot
• theme
• conflict

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

Found towards the beginning of the story, where the reader's attention is caught so he/she will keep reading.

• climax
• resolution
• exposition
• narrative hook

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

The point of greatest interest or suspense in the story 

• exposition
• climax
• resolution
• narrative hook

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

The relationship of the narrator to the story (the position)

• first person narrator
• third person narrator
• character
• point of view

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

When the story is told by the main character; the reader sees everything through the narrator's eyes

• first person narrator
• third person narrator
• second person narrator
• character

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

When a person outside the story is narrating.

• first person narrator
• third person narrator
• second person narrator
• character

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

The part of the plot that adds complications to the problems in the story and increases reader interest.

• exposition
• rising action
• narrative hook
• climax

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3