Academic Vocabulary

FictionVocabulary for Story

Building(includes lesson plans)

I can…

…discover, define and assimilate the academic vocabulary for writing a

great fiction story.

Elements of a Story

What are the basic parts to a great story?

Take out a sheet of Cornell Note Paper

TOPIC: Story Academic Vocabulary

ESSENTIAL QUESTION: What are the academic vocabulary words for a story, and how can I use them when writing a fiction story?

Story Map Vocabulary

•Exposition (Basic Situation)•Rising Action•Climax• Falling action•Resolution

More Story Academic VocabularyCopy these in your notes leaving room for definitions and examples

• Foreshadowing

• Predictions• Inferences• Conflict• Flashback• Protagonist• Antagonist

• Figurative Language

• Imagery• First Person

Point of View (P.O.V.)

• Third Person Limited P.O.V.

• Third Person Omniscient P.O.V.

DIRECTIONS:Using your Literature Books, dictionaries or any resources

available to you, look up each of these words.

Then to show your understanding, you must put the definitions in

your own words and tell what each one means.

Finally, we will be presenting these to the class to compare and come

up with our “class” definitions.

It is nowStudent

Work Time

Presentations

Students will share outtheir definitions, decide on classroom definitions and

have one student write these

in their best handwritingto make copies to distribute

to the whole class.

Optional Quick Write

You may have noticed the picture in the

background. The full color photo is on the

next slide.

What is her story?

Optional Quick Write Instructions

Using the story map from slide 6, write a story about this photo. Is this

photo from the beginning of your story? Is it during the resolution? Is

it part of the rising action or the climax? Where did she come from? What is she doing there? Why is she all alone? What is she waiting for? Why is she waiting for it? What’s in her bags? What’s she like? What is

the setting? You decide. This is your story.

Optional Share Out

Present your story to the class

We will develop speaking and listening norms

for students to follow

(Meets Common Core State Standards for Speaking and Listening)

Meets the following Common Core State

StandardsLanguage 4, 5, & 6Writing 3, 4, 5 & 9

Speaking and Listening 1 & 5

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