Vocabulary Lesson 7

Setting

• Most important idea of the text or story.

• Sequence of events in a story.

• Place and time of the story.

• Authors message.

Plot

• Sequence of events in a story.

• Authors Message

• Details that add to the main idea.

• Person, place creature in a story.

Theme

• Sequence of events

• Authors message

• Place and time the story takes place.

• Sensory detials.

Main Idea

• MOST important idea in a story

• Authors message

• Characters actual words, written in quotation marks. " "

• Sensory details

Supporting Detail

• Sensory details

• Details that add to the main idea.

• Sequence of events.

• Person, place, creature in a story.

Imagery

• Sequence of Events

• Visual descriptive details- sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch.

• Characters actual words

• Authors message

Dialogue

• Words in a sentence that give you clues to an unknown word and the meaning

• Sensory details.

• Characters actual words written in quotation marks.

• Sequence of Events

Description

• Authors message

• Sequence of events

• Sensory details ( 5 senses)

• Details that add the main idea

• Context clues

Context Clues

• Authors message

• Words in a sentence that give you clues to an unknown words meaning.

• Sequence of Events

• MOST important idea in a story

Character

• Authors Message

• Person, place, creature in a story.

• Place and time of a story.

• Most important idea of the text or story.