1. Reading Street Comprehension Skills: Literary Elements: Character, Setting, Plot, Theme
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Literary Elements
Student Expectations
Students infer main character traits and setting.
Students identify conflict, climax, resolution, and plot structure, and look for foreshadowing and flashback.
Students infer themes from elements of the story.
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Describe the main character at the beginning of the story and at the end of the story. How and why does this change take place?
How is the setting important in the story? How might the story be different if its time or place were different?
What does the main character want at the beginning of the story? How does the main character go about trying to achieve this?
A plot has a conflict, but the conflict isn’t always between two characters. What is the conflict in this story? How is it resolved?
In a few sentences, what is the plot of this story?
What is the theme of the story? Use details from the story to support your statement.
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Characters are the people or animals in stories. You learn about characters through their words and actions or how others treat them.
Plot is the important events of the story. The plot may include past or future actions, called foreshadowing and flashbacks. Conflict, climax, and resolution are specific parts of the plot.
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The setting is the time and place in which a story occurs. It may be only suggested in the story.
The theme is the underlying meaning of the story. You can use information from the text to help you understand this big idea.
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What are foreshadowing and flashbacks?
Foreshadowing is the use of hints or clues to suggest what will happen later in literature.
Flashback is action that interrupts to show an event that happened at an earlier time which is necessary to better understanding.
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How are the characters described?
What are the conflict and climax in the story?
What is the resolution?
How does the setting in the story affect the plot?
Is there more than one theme in this story?
Are foreshadowing and flashbacks used?
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