Recount Stories Vocabulary

to retell a story in my own words

• Recount

• Fable

• Folktale

• Myth

a short story with animals as characters conveying a moral

• Recount

• Fable

• Folktale

• Myth

old stories passed on and on

• Recount

• Fable

• Folktale

• Myth

a traditional story about a hero or event

• Recount

• Fable

• Folktale

• Myth

Differences in cultures

• Diverse

• Culture

• Central Message

• Lesson

The beliefs, customs, values, and activities of a particular group of people at a particular time.

• Diverse

• Culture

• Central Message

• Lesson

what the text is mainly about

• Diverse

• Culture

• Central Message

• Lesson

what the author is teaching us

• Diverse

• Culture

• Central Message

• Lesson

the message conveyed or a lesson learned from a story, poem, or event

• Moral

• Lesson

• Central Message

• Theme

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