ELA - Reading Strategies + Literary Elements

What is setting?

• A time or time period and location where a story takes place

• Where narrator it telling story from

• The overall lesson that the author is trying to teach the reader

• A clue that something may happen later in the text

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

What is plot?

• Falling action and resolution because this is where the conflict is resolved

• Only rising action to climax because this is where the conflict arrives

• All the parts of the story - exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution

• The main problem of a story

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

What is conflict?

• The overall lesson that the author is trying to teach the reader

• The main problem of a story. This is what the characters are trying to overcome or solve.

• How a character solves a problem

• A clue that something may happen later in the text

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

What is irony?

• When a character looks back in time to help us better understand something that is happening in the present time

• All the parts of the story - exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution

• The main problem of a story. This is what the characters are trying to overcome or solve

• When the opposite of what is expected to happen occurs. This can be verbal or situational

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

What is flashback?

• When a character looks back in time to help us better understand something happening in the present time

• The feeling a reader gets when reading a story

• The way a character or situation sounds - an attitude

• A time or time period and location where a story takes place

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

What is foreshadow?

• The perspective from which a story is told

• A conclusion drawn from prior knowledge and evidence or clues

• A clue that something may happen later in the text

• A way of doing things

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

What is point of view?

• The feeling a reader gets when reading a story

• The main problem of the story. This is what the characters are trying to overcome and solve

• The perspective from which a story is told

• The overall lesson that the author is trying to teach the reader

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

What is mood?

• The main problem of a story. This is what the characters are trying to overcome and solve.

• The feeling a reader gets when reading a story

• The way a character or situation sounds - an attitude

• When the opposite of what is expected to happen occurs. This can be verbal or situational.

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What is tone?

• The overall lesson that the author is trying to teach the reader

• The feeling a reader gets when reading a story

• The way a character or situation sounds - an attitude

• The perspective from which a story is told

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What is theme?

• The overall lesson that the author is trying to teach the reader

• The central or main idea

• What the book is mainly about

• Which person the author wanted the reader to focus on

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2