Mark wanted to be a great skater. But he didn't want to spend the hours practicing. He wished he could just do the tricks easily. Mark's dream was to have everyone stop and stare when he entered the skate park. He wanted them to say, "Mark is the best skater in the whole world."

What is the main idea?

Soccer players learn many skills when playing soccer. Soccer players learn how to dribble and pass the ball. They also learn how to control the ball so they can eventually score. Most importantly, soccer players learn how to work together with their teammates.

What is the main idea?

The setting of the story...

What is a summary?

What information should go in your summary?

What main parts should be in your summary?

When and where a story takes place is the....

The message or lesson the author is trying to teach you is the....

The sequence of events in a story is the....

The struggle between opposing forces is the....

What is an example of a character trait?

Why should you pay close attention to the characters when reading a story?

Danielle was a kindhearted soul.

From the driveway, I could already hear him, meowing at me from behind the apartment mirror. He pawed at the glass. As I came up to the porch, he leapt down from the windowsill to meet me at the door.

The author gives clues about the character through their speech, dress, actions, thoughts, and what other characters say about them.

a character who grows and changes throughout the story

a fully developed character with many traits

an underdeveloped character with few traits

a character who does not change in the story.

the leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text.

a person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary.

The author tells us exactly what to think or know about the character.

the act of developing or creating a character

Select the best evidence to support the statement that the Tin Woodman is kindhearted.

Once, indeed, the Tin Woodman stepped upon a beetle that was crawling along the road, and killed the poor little thing. This made the Tin Woodman very unhappy, for he was always careful not to hurt any living creature; and as he walked along he wept several tears of sorrow and regret. These tears ran slowly down his face and over the hinges of his jaw, and there they rusted. When Dorothy presently asked him a question the Tin Woodman could not open his mouth, for his jaws were tightly rusted together.

The following passage is about three girls—Kirsti, Annemarie, and Ellen—coming home from school during the German occupation of Denmark in World War II. Select the best evidence to support the statement that during the war, some supplies were scarce (hard to find, not much of).

Kirsti was chattering as she took off her sweater in the center of the apartment living room. "But I wasn't scared. Annemarie was, and Ellen, too. But not me!"

Mrs. Johansen rose quickly from the chair by the window where she'd been sitting. Mrs. Rosen, Ellen's mother, was there, too, in the opposite chair. They'd been having coffee together, as they did many afternoons. Of course it wasn't really coffee, though the mothers still called it that: "having coffee." There had been no real coffee in Copenhagen since the beginning of the Nazi occupation. Not even any real tea. The mothers sipped at hot water flavored with herbs.

The following passage is about a character going to a zoo. Select the best evidence to support the statement that the character is from out of town.

The zoo was on the edge of a wide desert valley, with a view of cactus-dotted hills above and, in the flats spread out beneath, flocks of small white houses. He went there after a meeting in Scottsdale, to fill an empty afternoon. He was restless in his hotel and had seen the zoo in a tourist brochure, with a picture of a wolf.

In a series of arid gardens connected by pathways there was a hummingbird enclosure and an aviary, a beaver pond and a pool for otters; there were Mexican parrots squawking, bighorn sheep on artificial cliffs, an ocelot curled up in a rocky crevice and a sleek bobcat pacing restlessly.

The story's central or main problem is......

Events that increase tension and unfold the story leading to the climax are:

Events that follow the climax and reduce tension are.......

The final outcome of the story is the.......

At the beginning of a story, you learn that Tommy is given a puppy he has always wanted. He names him Max. What is this part of the story called?

The event in the story that is the most intense or exciting is called: