1. Characters People or animals in a story

2. Setting Tells where and when the story takes place

3. Main Idea Tells what a story is mostly about

4. Contrast Tells how things are different

5. Compare Tells how things are alike

6. Cause Tells why something happened

7. Effect Tells what happened

8. Effect Tells what happened

9. Author’s Purpose The reason the story was written

10. Nonfiction A story that is real

11. Fiction A story that is make- believe

12. Predict To guess what is going to happen

13. Connections Book to Self Book to Book Book to World

14. Fact It can be proven It is true Opinion How someone feels about something

15. Plot The sequence of events in a story Beginning Middle End Problem- something that goes wrong in a story Solution- how the problem is solved

16. Problem Solution How the problem is solved Something that goes wrong in a story Phew!!!! Oh no!!!!